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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Summer 7: My Favorite Shows of Summer 2010 by Heather M
Fall arrives this week, so it’s a good time to recap the summer TV season. This summer, I resumed some longstanding favorites and picked up a few newbies. I also divorced a couple of shows – I didn’t go back to Army Wives when they dispatched all the spouses back into action and I decided to skip True Blood because I was burned out after the Maryann takeover last year. I did follow it via recaps and nothing I read made me wish I’d was watching it. So long, TB. In no particular order, these were my DVR/appointment shows for summer 2010:
1. Eureka, Syfy
I’ve covered the fourth season for the blog, and it bears repeating that this was the show’s strongest season since its first. With a time travel bent influencing the action, everybody came back better and happier. The show is coming back to resume season four early next year and then we get season five. You can watch the last few episodes at syfy.com.
2. Haven, Syfy
This quirky noirish drama could have been over-the-top like Happy Town but it instead fell somewhere squarely in the middle of Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure (two shows I loved back in the day), setting a fish-out-of-water tale of FBI agent Audrey Parker in a picturesque town with more than one secret. We don’t know yet whether they’re coming back. I hope so—I like this cast a lot. Syfy Rewind has the episodes posted the day after they air.
3. My Boys, TBS
Just unceremoniously dumped after the conclusion of its fourth season (after being off the air a ridiculous 13 months between seasons), this gem rebounded from the departure of Jim Gaffigan with a new dynamic that brought PJ’s sole gal pal, Stephanie, fully into the fold. The seasons were always too short, and now, the series officially was, too. I have no doubt all of these folks will land other gigs, but I’m highly annoyed at the way they, and the fans, were treated (and that NBC torpedoed Jordana Spiro and Kyle Howard’s second-position jobs on its network because a decision hadn’t been made on My Boys yet). You can catch the last few episodes online.
4. The Gates, ABC
The absolute definition of a guilty pleasure, this delightfully trashy supernatural melodrama mixes sex, intrigue, vampires, werewolves, witches, and succubi, oh my! And it’s been fabulous. I knew a lot of this cast from other work, but several are new to me. Some of the arcs were a little heavy handed and eyerolly, but I actually came to give a damn about the adoptive vampire parents who worried they’d be outed and the whole alpha female dynamic. A big thumbs up to ABC that they have actually aired all of the episodes. It wraps on Sunday with a two-hour finale. You can catch the last five episodes on Hulu. No news on a renewal yet. The other awesome thing? They shot it in a well-to-do enclave in Shreveport, Louisiana of all places. Woo hoo Louisiana revenue!
5. Movies of the week, Lifetime/LMN/Hallmark Channel
Guilty pleasure #2. Once the domain of the "big" networks to keep their lead actors employed during the hiatuses, movies of the week have become the bread and butter of basic cable. Cast with a variety of familiar faces (many of them doubly so to genre and sci-fi fans) like Julie Benz, Emma Caulfield, Leslie Hope, Natasha Henstridge, Gabrielle Anwar, Charisma Carpenter, and Dina Myer, etc., they're usually paint-by-numbers feel-good or gal/guy-in-peril stories. Mostly female-driven, the movies' recognizable leads are backed a host of (often Canadian) HITGs. I dig the MOWs because I usually can six-degrees-of half the folks in them and because the (also mostly) Canadian locations (usually Vancouver/Montreal/Calgary) are a vicarious travelogue. I’m apparently not alone—Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network debut at least two original movies a month, sometimes one a week, (usually on Saturday or Sunday evenings) and Hallmark Movie Channel usually has at least one new film a month. Once aired, they then get added to the networks’ already robust MOW libraries, where they run year-round, and their DVD library (yes, people pay for them). You can also see the Lifetime flicks online.
6. Covert Affairs, USA
Y’all know how I feel about Chris Gorham. The real surprise in this spy yarn from USA is that Piper Perabo can do light and funny and kickass and serious all at the same time. I haven't seen more than ten minutes of Coyote Ugly, so I only knew her from farce work (Slap Her…She’s French), romcoms (Imagine Me and You/Because I Said So) and a heartbreaking coming of age film (Lost & Delirious). She’s also done her share of accents, so I was pleased to see her rock her mother tongue. The only downside—a ridiculously overlong hiatus until season two, slated for next summer. USA seemed to have gotten with it, shortening the hiatuses of their other shows, so I don’t get the slow drag to a second season for their newest hit, especially when the first season ended the only way it could have (I think). Catch up with the season via the full episodes at USA's website.
7. Warehouse 13, Syfy
An amalgam of funny, sweet, sci-fi, and rat-a-tat-tat line delivery between its Tracey and Hepburn leads made Warehouse 13 a surprising hit for Syfy, and in a lovely bit of karma, a long overdue one for series stars Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly, and especially Saul Rubinek. McClintock was sort of in Clooney territory with a large collection of unsuccessful pilots and one-season wonders. Until now. What could have been an X-Files rip with male and female federal agents has evolved into a much more familial ensemble venture. The show gives as much weight to its two leads as it does Artie, Claudia (a very smart addition in season two), and a parade of rotating guest stars. They’re finishing season two Tuesday night (after an all-day season two marathon) and will be back for a third season in the spring.
And that’s a wrap on summer. Come see us at TV Goodness, where we’re reviewing the new and returning fall shows, and where I’ll be reviewing Haven until its season concludes in early October. Thanks so much for reading!
1. Eureka, Syfy
I’ve covered the fourth season for the blog, and it bears repeating that this was the show’s strongest season since its first. With a time travel bent influencing the action, everybody came back better and happier. The show is coming back to resume season four early next year and then we get season five. You can watch the last few episodes at syfy.com.
2. Haven, Syfy
This quirky noirish drama could have been over-the-top like Happy Town but it instead fell somewhere squarely in the middle of Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure (two shows I loved back in the day), setting a fish-out-of-water tale of FBI agent Audrey Parker in a picturesque town with more than one secret. We don’t know yet whether they’re coming back. I hope so—I like this cast a lot. Syfy Rewind has the episodes posted the day after they air.
3. My Boys, TBS
Just unceremoniously dumped after the conclusion of its fourth season (after being off the air a ridiculous 13 months between seasons), this gem rebounded from the departure of Jim Gaffigan with a new dynamic that brought PJ’s sole gal pal, Stephanie, fully into the fold. The seasons were always too short, and now, the series officially was, too. I have no doubt all of these folks will land other gigs, but I’m highly annoyed at the way they, and the fans, were treated (and that NBC torpedoed Jordana Spiro and Kyle Howard’s second-position jobs on its network because a decision hadn’t been made on My Boys yet). You can catch the last few episodes online.
4. The Gates, ABC
The absolute definition of a guilty pleasure, this delightfully trashy supernatural melodrama mixes sex, intrigue, vampires, werewolves, witches, and succubi, oh my! And it’s been fabulous. I knew a lot of this cast from other work, but several are new to me. Some of the arcs were a little heavy handed and eyerolly, but I actually came to give a damn about the adoptive vampire parents who worried they’d be outed and the whole alpha female dynamic. A big thumbs up to ABC that they have actually aired all of the episodes. It wraps on Sunday with a two-hour finale. You can catch the last five episodes on Hulu. No news on a renewal yet. The other awesome thing? They shot it in a well-to-do enclave in Shreveport, Louisiana of all places. Woo hoo Louisiana revenue!
5. Movies of the week, Lifetime/LMN/Hallmark Channel
Guilty pleasure #2. Once the domain of the "big" networks to keep their lead actors employed during the hiatuses, movies of the week have become the bread and butter of basic cable. Cast with a variety of familiar faces (many of them doubly so to genre and sci-fi fans) like Julie Benz, Emma Caulfield, Leslie Hope, Natasha Henstridge, Gabrielle Anwar, Charisma Carpenter, and Dina Myer, etc., they're usually paint-by-numbers feel-good or gal/guy-in-peril stories. Mostly female-driven, the movies' recognizable leads are backed a host of (often Canadian) HITGs. I dig the MOWs because I usually can six-degrees-of half the folks in them and because the (also mostly) Canadian locations (usually Vancouver/Montreal/Calgary) are a vicarious travelogue. I’m apparently not alone—Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network debut at least two original movies a month, sometimes one a week, (usually on Saturday or Sunday evenings) and Hallmark Movie Channel usually has at least one new film a month. Once aired, they then get added to the networks’ already robust MOW libraries, where they run year-round, and their DVD library (yes, people pay for them). You can also see the Lifetime flicks online.
6. Covert Affairs, USA
Y’all know how I feel about Chris Gorham. The real surprise in this spy yarn from USA is that Piper Perabo can do light and funny and kickass and serious all at the same time. I haven't seen more than ten minutes of Coyote Ugly, so I only knew her from farce work (Slap Her…She’s French), romcoms (Imagine Me and You/Because I Said So) and a heartbreaking coming of age film (Lost & Delirious). She’s also done her share of accents, so I was pleased to see her rock her mother tongue. The only downside—a ridiculously overlong hiatus until season two, slated for next summer. USA seemed to have gotten with it, shortening the hiatuses of their other shows, so I don’t get the slow drag to a second season for their newest hit, especially when the first season ended the only way it could have (I think). Catch up with the season via the full episodes at USA's website.
7. Warehouse 13, Syfy
An amalgam of funny, sweet, sci-fi, and rat-a-tat-tat line delivery between its Tracey and Hepburn leads made Warehouse 13 a surprising hit for Syfy, and in a lovely bit of karma, a long overdue one for series stars Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly, and especially Saul Rubinek. McClintock was sort of in Clooney territory with a large collection of unsuccessful pilots and one-season wonders. Until now. What could have been an X-Files rip with male and female federal agents has evolved into a much more familial ensemble venture. The show gives as much weight to its two leads as it does Artie, Claudia (a very smart addition in season two), and a parade of rotating guest stars. They’re finishing season two Tuesday night (after an all-day season two marathon) and will be back for a third season in the spring.
And that’s a wrap on summer. Come see us at TV Goodness, where we’re reviewing the new and returning fall shows, and where I’ll be reviewing Haven until its season concludes in early October. Thanks so much for reading!
Monday, September 13, 2010
The Summer 7: My Favorite Shows of Summer 2010 by Kara Howland
Ahhh. As summer comes to a close it’s time to look back and reflect on the summer shows I enjoyed. I’ve been a pretty active summer TV watcher for a while now and there has been a lot of great (and A LOT of bad) television. I don’t watch too much “reality” during the regular season but I allow it over the summer. Here’s what I enjoyed:
The Closer, TNT
I’m so pleased Kyra Sedgwick finally took home an Emmy for her portrayal of Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson. She has always been my number one reason to watch this show. Even if I can solve the murder before Major Crimes does, I always enjoy watching Brenda Lee at work. She’s a smart, strong, and sexy female lead. And her relationships with Chief Pope, her squad, and her husband are always interesting. This season I’ve really enjoyed the move into the new building and Commander Taylor’s plight to get out of his cube. Watching Brenda deal with Mary McDonnell’s Captain Raydor is always great drama. I, like Brenda, am not sure she should be the next chief. I like to see her solving cases from week to week, even after six years.
True Blood, HBO
I love this show. All the supernatural elements are always interesting and often shocking. The large cast means there are always numerous storylines to follow if one or two should fall short (I’m talking to you Sam Merlotte). James Frain’s Franklin is my favorite addition to this year’s cast with Denis O’Hare’s King of Mississippi taking an extremely close second. I will never tire of Eric Northman or Alcide Herveaux (I’m so happy he’s returning next year) or their fight for Sookie’s affection. I thought I’d be a die-hard Sookie and Bill fan forever. Not so much after the finale. Now, I wouldn’t mind seeing her with Eric or Alcide. And what do we have to look forward to next year? More witchcraft, amongst other things. I can’t wait.
Rescue Me, FX
This show never disappoints and Denis Leary is a revelation. Whether it’s funny, daring, dramatic, or shocking there is always something here to satisfy. After Tommy pledges to go back on the wagon yet again, almost no one in his life believes him. Can you blame them? One thing I can always rely on this show for is authenticity. I feel like we know how real fire fighters are, how it is to struggle with addiction, what it feesl like to run into a burning building and emerge alive. That’s probably what I love most about this show and I’ll be sad when it ends next year. It’s been an emotional, violent, and ultimately cathartic experience. And I hope we see more of Sheila and Tommy extremely dysfunctional relationship. They are so wrong together it’s right.
Treme, HBO
After a somewhat slow start, this series really took off for me. I love music and this show does a fantastic job of infusing it into everything. Khandi Alexander needs to be nominated for something (an Emmy, a SAG Award, something) for her role as Ladonna, a struggling bar-owner with a weakness for her ex-husband and a burning need to know what happened to her incarcerated brother during Katrina. There are no weak links in casting here. John Goodman, Melissa Leo, and Clarke Peters - to name a few - have had great storylines. But maybe most importantly, this show has reopened my eyes to just how badly things were handled in New Orleans and it makes me want to visit this bowed but unbroken city. I can’t wait for season two.
Samantha Brown’s Asia, The Travel Channel
I am a huge fan of Samantha Brown and watch all the iterations of her shows – Great Weekends, Passport to Latin America, and Passport to Europe. What I’ve loved in particular about the Asia series is that Samantha is so excited to be there. I guess these trips have been a long time in coming and I can feel her wonder and excitement. I find these shows to be great vacation prep and I find Samantha to be a fun and knowledgeable guide. I like that she often takes the road less traveled and tries to have more authentic experiences. And now I have a huge list of places I’d love to visit.
So You Think You Can Dance, FOX
Season 4 will always be the high point of this series for me but I’ve enjoyed every summer airing as well. I think Cat Deeley needs to be Emmy-nominated for her hosting duties and I love it when she puts Nigel in his place. I also loved the new format - a top 10 (well 11) and the addition of the all-stars. The addition of new choreographers always excites me – even if it doesn’t work. We had a great group of kids to root for this year who danced their hearts out. I really thought Kent would take it all – those tween fans were insane – but I’m glad Lauren made a late surge to take it all. I didn’t buy tickets to this year’s tour but I did see the dancers from Season 4 perform at the Nokia. It. Was. Awesome.
Project Runway, Lifetime
I was so skeptical about the new 90-minute format and, quite frankly, I feel like there is the same amount of show with more commercials. In any case, I still love this show. I always enjoy the challenges and watching the contestants “make it work.” Tim Gunn is amazing as a mentor (I even enjoyed Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style when he was back on Bravo). My favorite part is always watching those designs walk the runway – whether they are atrocious or heavenly. This year has yielded a strong crop of designers but next season I’d like them all to stay out of the hospital. It makes me worry about how hard they are working. But I guess fashion is pain. Learn it. Live it. Love it.
The Closer, TNT
I’m so pleased Kyra Sedgwick finally took home an Emmy for her portrayal of Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson. She has always been my number one reason to watch this show. Even if I can solve the murder before Major Crimes does, I always enjoy watching Brenda Lee at work. She’s a smart, strong, and sexy female lead. And her relationships with Chief Pope, her squad, and her husband are always interesting. This season I’ve really enjoyed the move into the new building and Commander Taylor’s plight to get out of his cube. Watching Brenda deal with Mary McDonnell’s Captain Raydor is always great drama. I, like Brenda, am not sure she should be the next chief. I like to see her solving cases from week to week, even after six years.
True Blood, HBO
I love this show. All the supernatural elements are always interesting and often shocking. The large cast means there are always numerous storylines to follow if one or two should fall short (I’m talking to you Sam Merlotte). James Frain’s Franklin is my favorite addition to this year’s cast with Denis O’Hare’s King of Mississippi taking an extremely close second. I will never tire of Eric Northman or Alcide Herveaux (I’m so happy he’s returning next year) or their fight for Sookie’s affection. I thought I’d be a die-hard Sookie and Bill fan forever. Not so much after the finale. Now, I wouldn’t mind seeing her with Eric or Alcide. And what do we have to look forward to next year? More witchcraft, amongst other things. I can’t wait.
Rescue Me, FX
This show never disappoints and Denis Leary is a revelation. Whether it’s funny, daring, dramatic, or shocking there is always something here to satisfy. After Tommy pledges to go back on the wagon yet again, almost no one in his life believes him. Can you blame them? One thing I can always rely on this show for is authenticity. I feel like we know how real fire fighters are, how it is to struggle with addiction, what it feesl like to run into a burning building and emerge alive. That’s probably what I love most about this show and I’ll be sad when it ends next year. It’s been an emotional, violent, and ultimately cathartic experience. And I hope we see more of Sheila and Tommy extremely dysfunctional relationship. They are so wrong together it’s right.
Treme, HBO
After a somewhat slow start, this series really took off for me. I love music and this show does a fantastic job of infusing it into everything. Khandi Alexander needs to be nominated for something (an Emmy, a SAG Award, something) for her role as Ladonna, a struggling bar-owner with a weakness for her ex-husband and a burning need to know what happened to her incarcerated brother during Katrina. There are no weak links in casting here. John Goodman, Melissa Leo, and Clarke Peters - to name a few - have had great storylines. But maybe most importantly, this show has reopened my eyes to just how badly things were handled in New Orleans and it makes me want to visit this bowed but unbroken city. I can’t wait for season two.
Samantha Brown’s Asia, The Travel Channel
I am a huge fan of Samantha Brown and watch all the iterations of her shows – Great Weekends, Passport to Latin America, and Passport to Europe. What I’ve loved in particular about the Asia series is that Samantha is so excited to be there. I guess these trips have been a long time in coming and I can feel her wonder and excitement. I find these shows to be great vacation prep and I find Samantha to be a fun and knowledgeable guide. I like that she often takes the road less traveled and tries to have more authentic experiences. And now I have a huge list of places I’d love to visit.
So You Think You Can Dance, FOX
Season 4 will always be the high point of this series for me but I’ve enjoyed every summer airing as well. I think Cat Deeley needs to be Emmy-nominated for her hosting duties and I love it when she puts Nigel in his place. I also loved the new format - a top 10 (well 11) and the addition of the all-stars. The addition of new choreographers always excites me – even if it doesn’t work. We had a great group of kids to root for this year who danced their hearts out. I really thought Kent would take it all – those tween fans were insane – but I’m glad Lauren made a late surge to take it all. I didn’t buy tickets to this year’s tour but I did see the dancers from Season 4 perform at the Nokia. It. Was. Awesome.
Project Runway, Lifetime
I was so skeptical about the new 90-minute format and, quite frankly, I feel like there is the same amount of show with more commercials. In any case, I still love this show. I always enjoy the challenges and watching the contestants “make it work.” Tim Gunn is amazing as a mentor (I even enjoyed Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style when he was back on Bravo). My favorite part is always watching those designs walk the runway – whether they are atrocious or heavenly. This year has yielded a strong crop of designers but next season I’d like them all to stay out of the hospital. It makes me worry about how hard they are working. But I guess fashion is pain. Learn it. Live it. Love it.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
The Summer 7: My Favorite Shows of Summer 2010 by Tina Charles
The Summer 2010 TV Season is quickly coming to an end. And I have to say I think I've watched more television this long hiatus break than ever before. So just as the Fall TV shows start to invade the airwaves here are the seven shows that snapped, crackled and popped on the small screen. They all made my must-see list this summer.
- Leverage, TNT: I decided to make the commitment and start watching TNT's grifter thriller in its third season. I quickly found out that it's a perfect summer show. It's fun, has a great cast, the cases are almost always intriguing and it is generally a great way to spend an hour. Now I'm going to have to make another commitment. I'm going to have to pick up Seasons 1 and 2 and catch up from the beginning.
- White Collar, USA Network: I quickly marathon'd Season 1 in order to watch Season 2 in real time. So happy that I did. White Collar returned and delivered great episode after great episode. Two reasons why I love this show are its stars Matthew Bomer and Tim Dekay. More reasons why I dig White Collar are its supporting cast in Tiffani Thiessen, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason and Sharif Atkins. I just hope in upcoming seasons Marsha and Sharif will be even more involved in the action and get some back stories.
- Rizzoli & Isles, TNT: TNT's newest hit procedural has also turned out to be a hit with me. Detective Jane Rizzoli and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles are a dynamic duo when it comes to fighting crime. What's even better is that some of the issues that I had with this show at the beginning of the season have finally worked itself out. This show has plenty of potential to live on for a long time.
- Chopped, Food Network: All I know is that this show has such a simple concept and it's provided me with hours of entertainment. The wannabe Chopped champions really earn their 10,000 bucks and I love to see what these cooking MacGyvers can make out of the wildest ingredients. Make a potato dessert? No problem. Shuck a bunch of clams or oysters in the allotted 20 minutes for the appetizer round? No problem. Find a way to make an edible concoction out of curry paste, arugula, peanut butter and pork loin? No problem. Plus it seems that the cheftestants that were part of this summer's lineup were particularly interesting as well as talented. Then Food Network upped the ante by beginning to air the Chopped Championship. We're two episodes in and I'm loving all these champions that have returned for a chance to win 50,000 dollars. The competition is fierce.
- Childrens Hospital, Adult Swim: I don't know what compelled me to start watching this web sensation turned Adult Swim newbie, but I'm sure happy that I did. This bite-sized comedy series features an all-star cast. The Rob Corddry-creation reeled in big names like Megan Mullally, Henry Winkler and one of my personal favorites, Ken Marino. And it did something that NBC's Surface wasn't able to do. It got me to like Lake Bell. While Bell left the show at the beginning of Season 2 (although good news, she will be back later this season), we're now getting used to Watchmen blonde babe Malin Akerman. Haven't figured out her character yet but I'll be around to find out. One of my favorite characters from the first and a little bit of the second season is the patient (Nick Kroll) who suffered from the aging disease. Hilarious doesn't even describe him. I hope this series that comes in a little package (each episode is only about 11 minutes long) continues to bring the laughs for a long time to come.
- True Blood, HBO: I've seen Seasons 1 and 2 of True Blood but I watched them both marathon-style after the finales and before the next season started. I never felt the need to watch real time. That all changed with Season 3. Now I am compelled (glamoured maybe?) to watch the over-the-top in a good way happenings of the Bon Temps residents whether they're human, undead, animal-like or even faerie (I still can't forget Sookie's reaction to finding out she was not quite human). Russell has been a formidable villain and his relationship with Talbot was definitely entertaining. Eric Northman just rocks every which way especially when he's in scenes with Pam. I have had a couple issues with Season 3 (namely Sam and Jason's story lines), but it really doesn't matter because everything else was just so damn addictive. The addition and then subtraction of Franklin was simply sizzling and the introduction of werewolf hottie Alcide was quite awesome. I've felt bad for what Tara had to go through and relished the closeness she had with her cousin Lafayette. And I'm really happy Lafayette got some TLC of his own in the form of Jesus. Now it's time for the finale and then we're going to have to say goodbye to a season that gave us Jessica and Hoyt and had one of the most twisted TV sex scenes of all time thanks to Bill and Lorena. Yup, True Blood has been truly blood-sucking good.
- Pretty Little Liars, ABC Family: I took an instant liking to this high school soap/murder mystery although I was originally cautious. I wondered how long I was going to be able to handle all the secrets like who this mysterious "A" texter really is going to turn out to be. But the story has developed nicely. I still have no clue whodunit which is a good thing and I really liked the summer finale. Hanna finding out who's terrorizing the friends and then getting hit by a car really drums up the drama and makes me want the winter to get here now so we can continue the action. My issue with this show is how every guy (and some girls) want to date these 16-year-olds no matter how old the guy is. Spencer has moments with both of her older sister's boyfriends? The teacher can't help but be drawn to Aria? I don't know if I'm totally buying all of that business. Regardless, I love the young cast. The adults are some of my favorites (Charmed's Holly Marie Combs, Chad Lowe from Life Goes On and especially Melrose Place's Laura Leighton). I'm not too cool with Bryce Johnson's sleazy cop but no matter, I already love him on Fox's Lone Star. Like many of the other selections on this list, Pretty Little Liars makes the perfect summer show and it'll definitely heat things up when the drama comes back in the winter.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Rescue Me Season 6 Finale by Sabrina A Taylor
What an odd finale. I was entertained but it really did lack the excitement that the other seasons left us with.
I really thought the finale opened up with a dream sequence. Sheila on the phone with her therapist adjusting to life after Damian’s accident and Tommy coming in acting very affectionate and familiar. It wasn’t. We learn that while Damian has survived the accident he is now bound to a wheelchair in a vegetative state. Tommy apparently has been there for Damian…and Sheila much to Janet and his daughters’ dismay. Poor Tommy I mean he is always well intentioned but it seems he just can’t juggle his priorities. It’s either work and drinking, work and cheating, work and family and at this point in time it’s work and Sheila & Damian. Colleen is celebrating her sobriety and little Katie has a dance recital and while Tommy can be there for the guys at the firehouse and for Sheila and Damian he misses Colleens XXX meeting and flakes on the recital.
Lou survived this season. I hope next season we see a leaner and meaner Lou. I can’t imagine the firehouse or Tommy without him. In tonight’s finale we learn that Sean has succeeded in getting the city to honor Pat’s death with a Pavilion in central park and of course all the guys will be present for it’s unveiling. When they get to the unveiling they learn that the Pavilion is fancy name for a public restroom. The guys are offended and it is Lou that comes up with a mischievous idea to remove the plaque with Pat’s name on it and relocate it to city hall. They pull of this caper successfully and then go and celebrate with Damian and we end the season with the guys learning that vegetative Damian is a chick magnet.
All in all the finale left a lot to be desired. It’s interesting that the writers choose to make this season’s cliffhanger Damian reaching out and grabbing Tommy in the final seconds saying “You did this to me” instead of capitalizing on the fact that Tommy found medical records at home stating that Janet is pregnant. Since the finale was supposed to occur two months after the accident…and Tommy and Janet being intimate and planning to start over we are to assume that this baby is Tommy’s and he seemed less than pleased. Also, Janet chose to avoid telling him when he asked her repeatedly if there was anything she wanted to tell him.
I can’t believe this season is gone. We were promised 22 episodes and ended up with 10. I feel like the way all the story lines built with slow solid foundations that the writers really expected to have 22 episodes to bring about resolutions and then for some reason had to bring everything to a rapid halt. Will the next season bring about a new little Gavin, is the baby Tommy’s? How much of an interesting story line would it be if the baby came out Puerto Rican like Franco? Can Tommy stay sober? Will Tommy’s support for Sheila open up doors we know were never really closed? Will Lou be able to curb his food addiction to enable him to stay on the job he can’t live without?
I really thought the finale opened up with a dream sequence. Sheila on the phone with her therapist adjusting to life after Damian’s accident and Tommy coming in acting very affectionate and familiar. It wasn’t. We learn that while Damian has survived the accident he is now bound to a wheelchair in a vegetative state. Tommy apparently has been there for Damian…and Sheila much to Janet and his daughters’ dismay. Poor Tommy I mean he is always well intentioned but it seems he just can’t juggle his priorities. It’s either work and drinking, work and cheating, work and family and at this point in time it’s work and Sheila & Damian. Colleen is celebrating her sobriety and little Katie has a dance recital and while Tommy can be there for the guys at the firehouse and for Sheila and Damian he misses Colleens XXX meeting and flakes on the recital.
Lou survived this season. I hope next season we see a leaner and meaner Lou. I can’t imagine the firehouse or Tommy without him. In tonight’s finale we learn that Sean has succeeded in getting the city to honor Pat’s death with a Pavilion in central park and of course all the guys will be present for it’s unveiling. When they get to the unveiling they learn that the Pavilion is fancy name for a public restroom. The guys are offended and it is Lou that comes up with a mischievous idea to remove the plaque with Pat’s name on it and relocate it to city hall. They pull of this caper successfully and then go and celebrate with Damian and we end the season with the guys learning that vegetative Damian is a chick magnet.
All in all the finale left a lot to be desired. It’s interesting that the writers choose to make this season’s cliffhanger Damian reaching out and grabbing Tommy in the final seconds saying “You did this to me” instead of capitalizing on the fact that Tommy found medical records at home stating that Janet is pregnant. Since the finale was supposed to occur two months after the accident…and Tommy and Janet being intimate and planning to start over we are to assume that this baby is Tommy’s and he seemed less than pleased. Also, Janet chose to avoid telling him when he asked her repeatedly if there was anything she wanted to tell him.
I can’t believe this season is gone. We were promised 22 episodes and ended up with 10. I feel like the way all the story lines built with slow solid foundations that the writers really expected to have 22 episodes to bring about resolutions and then for some reason had to bring everything to a rapid halt. Will the next season bring about a new little Gavin, is the baby Tommy’s? How much of an interesting story line would it be if the baby came out Puerto Rican like Franco? Can Tommy stay sober? Will Tommy’s support for Sheila open up doors we know were never really closed? Will Lou be able to curb his food addiction to enable him to stay on the job he can’t live without?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Random Thoughts on Mad Men: Waldorf Stories by Kara Howland
And the student becomes the master. I don’t know about you but I found this week’s episode fascinating. We are learning a lot by watching the evolution – well, the devolution – of Don Draper. We see him when he’s an eager up and comer in the fur business. He takes his chance with Roger and manages to get a job offer, even though Roger can’t remember it. Much like Don can’t remember much of his weekend. He goes to bed with a brunette on Friday and wakes up with a blonde on Sunday. How does this man not have an STD? He really gets around.
I always enjoy the Don/Peggy dynamic and this week it feels like Peggy is continuing to come into her own. I don’t think we’ll have to worry about this particular pupil ever becoming too much like her teacher but I did like seeing her push the new art director around. It was pretty ballsy to strip down so he (as a nudist) could do the same and feel comfortable. Too bad he was so “distracted” by Peggy’s nudity. She also did the right thing in reminding Don that he basically stole that slogan from Roger’s wife’s cousin. And Don paid for it dearly by having to hire that little shrimp.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (in a different way): I’m ready for Don to stop living in the gutter. He is such a mess. I want him to wake up and take some responsibility – especially after seeing how low he’s sunk. I don’t need him to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed but perhaps he should cut back on the boozing and whoring. Seriously.
p.s. Did you see a few of the cast members on the cover of Rolling Stone? Check this out.
I always enjoy the Don/Peggy dynamic and this week it feels like Peggy is continuing to come into her own. I don’t think we’ll have to worry about this particular pupil ever becoming too much like her teacher but I did like seeing her push the new art director around. It was pretty ballsy to strip down so he (as a nudist) could do the same and feel comfortable. Too bad he was so “distracted” by Peggy’s nudity. She also did the right thing in reminding Don that he basically stole that slogan from Roger’s wife’s cousin. And Don paid for it dearly by having to hire that little shrimp.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (in a different way): I’m ready for Don to stop living in the gutter. He is such a mess. I want him to wake up and take some responsibility – especially after seeing how low he’s sunk. I don’t need him to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed but perhaps he should cut back on the boozing and whoring. Seriously.
p.s. Did you see a few of the cast members on the cover of Rolling Stone? Check this out.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
True Blood: Fresh Blood by Kara Howland
Sorry for the delay. As you may or may not know I was working the Red Carpet for the Emmys. I spoke to Rutina Wesley (sweet) and Alexander Skarsgard (shy) and saw Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer about five feet away – deep in their newlywed love haze. Oh yeah, I also talked to Mariana Klaveno. Although I really didn’t enjoy Lorena, she couldn’t have been more lovely in person.
Now let’s get to this week’s episode. According to the trades it was the most watched episode ever. Nice! I hope you’re preparing for the finale in two weeks. I’m sure it’ll be a doozy. Especially after what happened tonight. I’ll try to make this quick and relatively painless.
Jesus is just like a Virgin. As he and Lafayette are coming down from their high Jesus is ready to go again. Lafayette has never been on a trip like that and he warns Jesus they can’t control where they’ll go. After he sees Jesus turn into some kind of monster, Lafayette asks Jesus to go home for the night. He doesn’t even want him in the same room let alone the same bed. And when Lafayette wakes up later to voices, he sees that all sort of little dolls and figures are talking to him. And it’s pretty freaky.
Crystal is a were panther. She is expected to marry Felton, who is her half-brother, and breed with him until she gets too old or until she dies. At first it’s all a little too much for Jason to take in so he leaves to go in search of Sookie. All he finds is QB1 practicing at night with his boys as their bored girlfriends look on. As his friends leave, Jason accuses Kitsch of being on V. Kitsch says his coach gets it for him, his parents pay for it, and his principal uses it for his sex life. So there’s no one for Jason to tattle to. Jason thinks it’s all unfair but returns home. He doesn’t know what to do about Sookie or about Kitsch but he knows he doesn’t want to break up with Crystal. Now she’s worried about the raid. Her daddy and Felton are crazy enough to burn the whole place down instead of letting the DEA take it.
Yvetta, the cardiologist, let’s Sookie escape with Bill. As they make their getaway in Sookie’s car Bill tells her he wants to start again and they talk about how idyllic their life would be if it could be a whole lot more normal. But they don’t make it that far before Eric and Russell hunt them down and take them back to Fangtasia. Eric makes Bill start a fight with him as Russell and Sookie go into the bar so he can tell Bill his plan. And the plan is to let both Eric and Russell drink from Sookie and walk into the daylight. To be a day walker is a vampire's most coveted desire. Sookie can’t believe Bill is going along with this – what choice does he have? He’s chained – and she tells him she hates him. Russell makes Eric walk into the daylight first and when Russell sees it’s working he goes outside too. Bill begs Pam to unchain him but she can’t take her bloodstained eyes away from the monitors. Just as Russell notices Eric has started smoking up Eric handcuffs himself to Russell. Now they can die together.
Sam seems to be turning into a male version of Tara. Sam shows up at the bar drunk and insults everyone who works for him as well as quite a few of the customers. Arlene and Holly leave and Terry stops talking to Sam. He even fires Tommy and tells him to get out of the rental. When Tara shows up she doesn’t appear to be that shocked by Sam’s behavior. She ends up confronting Andy about what she thinks really happened the night Eggs was shot. And she finally learns what actually happened. Now maybe she can move on. In the meantime, she and Sam are back to having sex. So Sam is a little distracted when Tommy cuts the alarm to the safe. Maybe this time Tommy will actually get away with all that money. I say good riddance.
Random tidbits:
- Who knew that silver and water solution was available at the local drug store? So convenient.
- Jason thought Crystal’s secret was shoplifting or something.
- Sookie is a human/fairy hybrid. Pure fairies have been extinct for a millennia.
- Summer is in cahoots with Hoyt’s mama, who isn’t dissuaded by their breakup. She’s still determined to tame her willful son.
- Russell has only loved one man during his entire lifetime and that man was Talbot.
- Eric likes Pam better when she’s cold and mean.
- Arlene tries to get rid of the baby with a kind of herbal tea Holly makes for her but she’s still pregnant the next morning even after her bleeding. Rene’s seed lives!
What a great episode. I don’t want Eric to die but I think his plan is kind of brilliant. Are they so weakened that Russell can’t drag himself and Eric out of the sun? We know how powerful he is. They’d better explain that in the first minute of the finale. Enquiring minds want to know!
I’m kind of surprised Sookie went from love to hate so fast with Bill. I know she thinks he betrayed her – and I’m sure she’s tired of that – but her feelings seems to be all over the place. I get that she might be feeling confused and betrayed by both Eric and Bill. I get that she can’t understand why Bill is going back on his promise so soon after they talked about their wonderful new life. And she’s afraid she’s about to die, especially since two vampires are drinking her blood. Something there just didn’t ring true for me.
I like where things are going for Lala. Maybe he’s finally had one too many hits of V. I’m very interested to see where that ends up going. One thing is certain. It will mess him up. Big time.
Arlene, of course, seemed to be certain she’d gotten rid of Rene’s baby. But as Holly said, if this soul is meant to be born it will be born. And apparently, it’s meant to come into this world. I do think Arlene is going a bit overboard with her assumptions that the baby will be pure evil. We don’t know that. And Terry wants to raise the baby as his own. I can understand that Arlene doesn’t want that life in her body but I’m not sure she’ll be able to get rid of it.
Now let’s get to this week’s episode. According to the trades it was the most watched episode ever. Nice! I hope you’re preparing for the finale in two weeks. I’m sure it’ll be a doozy. Especially after what happened tonight. I’ll try to make this quick and relatively painless.
Jesus is just like a Virgin. As he and Lafayette are coming down from their high Jesus is ready to go again. Lafayette has never been on a trip like that and he warns Jesus they can’t control where they’ll go. After he sees Jesus turn into some kind of monster, Lafayette asks Jesus to go home for the night. He doesn’t even want him in the same room let alone the same bed. And when Lafayette wakes up later to voices, he sees that all sort of little dolls and figures are talking to him. And it’s pretty freaky.
Crystal is a were panther. She is expected to marry Felton, who is her half-brother, and breed with him until she gets too old or until she dies. At first it’s all a little too much for Jason to take in so he leaves to go in search of Sookie. All he finds is QB1 practicing at night with his boys as their bored girlfriends look on. As his friends leave, Jason accuses Kitsch of being on V. Kitsch says his coach gets it for him, his parents pay for it, and his principal uses it for his sex life. So there’s no one for Jason to tattle to. Jason thinks it’s all unfair but returns home. He doesn’t know what to do about Sookie or about Kitsch but he knows he doesn’t want to break up with Crystal. Now she’s worried about the raid. Her daddy and Felton are crazy enough to burn the whole place down instead of letting the DEA take it.
Yvetta, the cardiologist, let’s Sookie escape with Bill. As they make their getaway in Sookie’s car Bill tells her he wants to start again and they talk about how idyllic their life would be if it could be a whole lot more normal. But they don’t make it that far before Eric and Russell hunt them down and take them back to Fangtasia. Eric makes Bill start a fight with him as Russell and Sookie go into the bar so he can tell Bill his plan. And the plan is to let both Eric and Russell drink from Sookie and walk into the daylight. To be a day walker is a vampire's most coveted desire. Sookie can’t believe Bill is going along with this – what choice does he have? He’s chained – and she tells him she hates him. Russell makes Eric walk into the daylight first and when Russell sees it’s working he goes outside too. Bill begs Pam to unchain him but she can’t take her bloodstained eyes away from the monitors. Just as Russell notices Eric has started smoking up Eric handcuffs himself to Russell. Now they can die together.
Sam seems to be turning into a male version of Tara. Sam shows up at the bar drunk and insults everyone who works for him as well as quite a few of the customers. Arlene and Holly leave and Terry stops talking to Sam. He even fires Tommy and tells him to get out of the rental. When Tara shows up she doesn’t appear to be that shocked by Sam’s behavior. She ends up confronting Andy about what she thinks really happened the night Eggs was shot. And she finally learns what actually happened. Now maybe she can move on. In the meantime, she and Sam are back to having sex. So Sam is a little distracted when Tommy cuts the alarm to the safe. Maybe this time Tommy will actually get away with all that money. I say good riddance.
Random tidbits:
- Who knew that silver and water solution was available at the local drug store? So convenient.
- Jason thought Crystal’s secret was shoplifting or something.
- Sookie is a human/fairy hybrid. Pure fairies have been extinct for a millennia.
- Summer is in cahoots with Hoyt’s mama, who isn’t dissuaded by their breakup. She’s still determined to tame her willful son.
- Russell has only loved one man during his entire lifetime and that man was Talbot.
- Eric likes Pam better when she’s cold and mean.
- Arlene tries to get rid of the baby with a kind of herbal tea Holly makes for her but she’s still pregnant the next morning even after her bleeding. Rene’s seed lives!
What a great episode. I don’t want Eric to die but I think his plan is kind of brilliant. Are they so weakened that Russell can’t drag himself and Eric out of the sun? We know how powerful he is. They’d better explain that in the first minute of the finale. Enquiring minds want to know!
I’m kind of surprised Sookie went from love to hate so fast with Bill. I know she thinks he betrayed her – and I’m sure she’s tired of that – but her feelings seems to be all over the place. I get that she might be feeling confused and betrayed by both Eric and Bill. I get that she can’t understand why Bill is going back on his promise so soon after they talked about their wonderful new life. And she’s afraid she’s about to die, especially since two vampires are drinking her blood. Something there just didn’t ring true for me.
I like where things are going for Lala. Maybe he’s finally had one too many hits of V. I’m very interested to see where that ends up going. One thing is certain. It will mess him up. Big time.
Arlene, of course, seemed to be certain she’d gotten rid of Rene’s baby. But as Holly said, if this soul is meant to be born it will be born. And apparently, it’s meant to come into this world. I do think Arlene is going a bit overboard with her assumptions that the baby will be pure evil. We don’t know that. And Terry wants to raise the baby as his own. I can understand that Arlene doesn’t want that life in her body but I’m not sure she’ll be able to get rid of it.
Haven: Ain't No Sunshine by Heather M
This week’s Haven, “Ain't No Sunshine” treads into territory previously charted by genre shows like The X-Files ("Soft Light") and Friday the 13th the Series ("Shadow Boxer"). A phantom shadow "dark man” is wreaking all manner of havoc on personnel associated with a clinic where an overwhelming number of cancer patients have died. The case itself is fairly straightforward – a doctor and nurse were conspiring to keep back cancer meds to resell them and pocket the profits. The survivors of the patients put that together, and the grieving husband of one of the victims finds that his shadow can skip out for killing sprees to avenge their deaths. The episode wraps up with the man confined alone to a darkened house. Not as tragic as it sounds because he’s blind.
The bigger story involves Jess and Nathan. Jess works at the clinic and puts herself in harm’s way when she noses around the home of the blind man, realizes his wife had too many leftover pills and pockets them to show Nathan, bringing the shadow after her. This is pretty inconvenient because she and Nathan have started dating in earnest. He’s hesitant to move the relationship forward, despite his outward interest, and Audrey finally goads a TMI confession out of him that he’s been abstinent since his condition developed so he doesn’t know whether he can actually have sex with Jess. Audrey tells him to share that with Jess, and through the power of red wine and Jess's insistence that he never look away from her, things look pretty promising until Audrey interrupts because the dark man has descended on the police station, trapping her with Vince and Dave.
After Jess is attacked (stabbed but surviving), she decides she can’t stay in Haven and goes home to Montreal. Nathan is upset but understanding. He and Audrey have a heart to heart about finally having a friend they can count on in each other. She’s been walled off because of her upbringing and the job; he’s been walled off because of his physical inability to feel. When Audrey sweetly kisses him on the cheek, he touches his face, stunned at the realization that he felt it against his skin. He’s sort of dumbstruck about it as he climbs in the truck beside Audrey, and she's oblivious because she’d already turned around to get in after she kissed him.
So, we have an interesting turn with Audrey and Nathan, but I don’t get a romance vibe there at all. I think we’re going to find out they’re related, perhaps even siblings, and that her return is driving the Troubles in the same way that her mother perhaps did (total conjecture/I’m spoiler-free). We haven’t really been told anything about Nathan’s mom, so there may be a tangent there, too. No Duke this week, which left more room for the Jess/Nathan arc. I was pleased and surprised they didn’t kill her, and that the door’s open for her to come back into Nathan’s life later. Solid effort all around
No episode this week. New episodes return on the 10th. You can catch up on Syfy.com and Hulu.com.
The bigger story involves Jess and Nathan. Jess works at the clinic and puts herself in harm’s way when she noses around the home of the blind man, realizes his wife had too many leftover pills and pockets them to show Nathan, bringing the shadow after her. This is pretty inconvenient because she and Nathan have started dating in earnest. He’s hesitant to move the relationship forward, despite his outward interest, and Audrey finally goads a TMI confession out of him that he’s been abstinent since his condition developed so he doesn’t know whether he can actually have sex with Jess. Audrey tells him to share that with Jess, and through the power of red wine and Jess's insistence that he never look away from her, things look pretty promising until Audrey interrupts because the dark man has descended on the police station, trapping her with Vince and Dave.
After Jess is attacked (stabbed but surviving), she decides she can’t stay in Haven and goes home to Montreal. Nathan is upset but understanding. He and Audrey have a heart to heart about finally having a friend they can count on in each other. She’s been walled off because of her upbringing and the job; he’s been walled off because of his physical inability to feel. When Audrey sweetly kisses him on the cheek, he touches his face, stunned at the realization that he felt it against his skin. He’s sort of dumbstruck about it as he climbs in the truck beside Audrey, and she's oblivious because she’d already turned around to get in after she kissed him.
So, we have an interesting turn with Audrey and Nathan, but I don’t get a romance vibe there at all. I think we’re going to find out they’re related, perhaps even siblings, and that her return is driving the Troubles in the same way that her mother perhaps did (total conjecture/I’m spoiler-free). We haven’t really been told anything about Nathan’s mom, so there may be a tangent there, too. No Duke this week, which left more room for the Jess/Nathan arc. I was pleased and surprised they didn’t kill her, and that the door’s open for her to come back into Nathan’s life later. Solid effort all around
No episode this week. New episodes return on the 10th. You can catch up on Syfy.com and Hulu.com.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Drop Dead Diva: Bad Girls & Freeze the Day by Kara Howland
Sorry I didn’t get this up right away. I worked the Emmy red carpet yesterday and I was too exhausted to watch any TV. But I’m here now and I’ve got opinions!
Wow. My first opinion is that the past two hours are the best two hours of the show I’ve ever seen. Hands down. This is the kind of writing and acting I want to see on this show every week. I’m not saying I don’t already love this show because I do. But I think these last two episodes really showcased how amazing this show can be.
Let’s do the highlights then explore deeper. Parker’s former bedmate and current partner Claire Harrison returns to the firm after an eight-year absence. She left the firm to get married after she fell in love and now she’s back to get a divorce and to start practicing law again. She fakes evidence and fires Kim, who breaks up with Parker. Grayson meets the parents and admits that he’s scared of a future with Vanessa. She appreciates the honesty but breaks up with him. Grayson doesn’t want to lose another important woman in his life so he proposes. Fred asks Stacy out on another date but Stacy is afraid that they’ll burn out quickly if they start out too hot and heavy. Worried that he doesn’t care, Stacy makes him jealous until he admits how much he does care. Jane, once again resolving to tell Grayson who she really is, picks the time and place and even daydreams about their wedding. But before she can tell Grayson anything he asks Jane to be his best man. Upset, Jane runs out of the restaurant and when Grayson follows after her he’s hit by a car. When he regains consciousness momentarily, Grayson calls her Deb.
I’m leaving out a lot of details on purpose because I want to talk about relationships much more then the actual details of all the cases. Let’s start with Kim and Parker. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I really enjoy this relationship. When it started I was very nervous. It’s always a tricky proposition to be involved with the boss and I was worried Kim’s reputation and the work environment would be negatively affected. But they’ve seemed to make it work and I like that Parker is different with her. He really cares about her and was striving to make it seem like he had no bias. And I think he was succeeding. Should he have told Kim about the kiss? Absolutely but I don’t think he had a hidden agenda in keeping it from Kim. I think he was scared to tell her. He’s scared to mess up this great thing he’s got going. But silence can be the death of something. Even though Kim and Parker are apart now I don’t think it will be a permanent separation.
Fred and Stacy. They are adorable. I’m so happy Stacy decided to give Fred a chance. And I really like the way their relationship is progressing. I love that he’s jealous and even though Terri tries to get Fred to be Zen about it all he can’t fake it. He’s jealous. But that’s what Stacy wants. She’s not used to guys like Fred. She probably hasn’t had someone who cares about her like this for a long time. And she’s insecure too. She’s worried that Fred doesn’t care. But I think these two crazy kids will make it and in the meantime it’s fun watching their relationship evolve.
Jane and Grayson. Where to start. Even Grayson admits that they have a connection, which is why he asks Jane to stand up for him at his wedding. What I think is the most confounding thing about their relationship (aside from the fact that Deb inhabits Jane’s body and can't tell him) is that Jane always manages to talk Grayson into something without knowing what she’s doing. Every time she gives Grayson a speech it seems to send him running into the arms of another woman. Jane thinks she’s making a case for herself but she never is. Grayson always takes her little pearls of wisdom and applies them to his other relationships. But how would he know? Jane can’t tell him she’s Deb so he has to believe they’re forging a friendship and nothing else. And Jane is pretty good at hiding her feelings by now. I’m sure these soul mates will get together one day but I’m assuming there will be at least one more season of the whole will-they-or-won’t-they thing. If it’s too easy for these two to get together, I guess a lot of people would lose interest. Not me. But I guess that’s what they’re thinking. And by them I mean the writers and the network.
Ok. Now I’m ready to talk about the cases. Well, I really want to talk about Gail O’Grady and Gloria Reuben. It is so nice to see both of them on the small screen again. Gail is very convincing as a cyber bully. I feel so sorry for her daughter. Can you imagine growing up with a mother like that? She let her own child take the blame for something she did. That’s some bad parenting. And Gloria Reuben. I’m sure she’s worked since ER, but that was the last show I saw her on and I loved her character. Here she plays a woman who can’t imagine life without her husband. The irony is that her research could help bring him back. I’m glad Grayson and Jane convince her to continue to live her life. She's got to be awake to make that discovery.
Terri and Stacy are awesome as always. I know I’m not giving them their due here, but I can’t even imagine this show without them. They are great comic relief and have also shown us some great dramatic work.
And I have to mention both the opening song and dance number, which I found highly enjoyable. Actually, I like it every time there is song and dance. It makes me smile. And an honorable mention goes out to Paula Abdul. I like her on this show.
What did you think? Will Grayson be ok? Will Kim and Parker get back together? Did Fred know Grayson was going to get hit by that car? I hope to find out on the next season of Drop Dead Diva.
Wow. My first opinion is that the past two hours are the best two hours of the show I’ve ever seen. Hands down. This is the kind of writing and acting I want to see on this show every week. I’m not saying I don’t already love this show because I do. But I think these last two episodes really showcased how amazing this show can be.
Let’s do the highlights then explore deeper. Parker’s former bedmate and current partner Claire Harrison returns to the firm after an eight-year absence. She left the firm to get married after she fell in love and now she’s back to get a divorce and to start practicing law again. She fakes evidence and fires Kim, who breaks up with Parker. Grayson meets the parents and admits that he’s scared of a future with Vanessa. She appreciates the honesty but breaks up with him. Grayson doesn’t want to lose another important woman in his life so he proposes. Fred asks Stacy out on another date but Stacy is afraid that they’ll burn out quickly if they start out too hot and heavy. Worried that he doesn’t care, Stacy makes him jealous until he admits how much he does care. Jane, once again resolving to tell Grayson who she really is, picks the time and place and even daydreams about their wedding. But before she can tell Grayson anything he asks Jane to be his best man. Upset, Jane runs out of the restaurant and when Grayson follows after her he’s hit by a car. When he regains consciousness momentarily, Grayson calls her Deb.
I’m leaving out a lot of details on purpose because I want to talk about relationships much more then the actual details of all the cases. Let’s start with Kim and Parker. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I really enjoy this relationship. When it started I was very nervous. It’s always a tricky proposition to be involved with the boss and I was worried Kim’s reputation and the work environment would be negatively affected. But they’ve seemed to make it work and I like that Parker is different with her. He really cares about her and was striving to make it seem like he had no bias. And I think he was succeeding. Should he have told Kim about the kiss? Absolutely but I don’t think he had a hidden agenda in keeping it from Kim. I think he was scared to tell her. He’s scared to mess up this great thing he’s got going. But silence can be the death of something. Even though Kim and Parker are apart now I don’t think it will be a permanent separation.
Fred and Stacy. They are adorable. I’m so happy Stacy decided to give Fred a chance. And I really like the way their relationship is progressing. I love that he’s jealous and even though Terri tries to get Fred to be Zen about it all he can’t fake it. He’s jealous. But that’s what Stacy wants. She’s not used to guys like Fred. She probably hasn’t had someone who cares about her like this for a long time. And she’s insecure too. She’s worried that Fred doesn’t care. But I think these two crazy kids will make it and in the meantime it’s fun watching their relationship evolve.
Jane and Grayson. Where to start. Even Grayson admits that they have a connection, which is why he asks Jane to stand up for him at his wedding. What I think is the most confounding thing about their relationship (aside from the fact that Deb inhabits Jane’s body and can't tell him) is that Jane always manages to talk Grayson into something without knowing what she’s doing. Every time she gives Grayson a speech it seems to send him running into the arms of another woman. Jane thinks she’s making a case for herself but she never is. Grayson always takes her little pearls of wisdom and applies them to his other relationships. But how would he know? Jane can’t tell him she’s Deb so he has to believe they’re forging a friendship and nothing else. And Jane is pretty good at hiding her feelings by now. I’m sure these soul mates will get together one day but I’m assuming there will be at least one more season of the whole will-they-or-won’t-they thing. If it’s too easy for these two to get together, I guess a lot of people would lose interest. Not me. But I guess that’s what they’re thinking. And by them I mean the writers and the network.
Ok. Now I’m ready to talk about the cases. Well, I really want to talk about Gail O’Grady and Gloria Reuben. It is so nice to see both of them on the small screen again. Gail is very convincing as a cyber bully. I feel so sorry for her daughter. Can you imagine growing up with a mother like that? She let her own child take the blame for something she did. That’s some bad parenting. And Gloria Reuben. I’m sure she’s worked since ER, but that was the last show I saw her on and I loved her character. Here she plays a woman who can’t imagine life without her husband. The irony is that her research could help bring him back. I’m glad Grayson and Jane convince her to continue to live her life. She's got to be awake to make that discovery.
Terri and Stacy are awesome as always. I know I’m not giving them their due here, but I can’t even imagine this show without them. They are great comic relief and have also shown us some great dramatic work.
And I have to mention both the opening song and dance number, which I found highly enjoyable. Actually, I like it every time there is song and dance. It makes me smile. And an honorable mention goes out to Paula Abdul. I like her on this show.
What did you think? Will Grayson be ok? Will Kim and Parker get back together? Did Fred know Grayson was going to get hit by that car? I hope to find out on the next season of Drop Dead Diva.
Eureka: The Ex-Files by Heather M
First off, Eureka EP Amy Berg is an awesome human being and jumpy claps that she Tweeted truthfully when she said Ed Quinn was not back on the show. That said, that Tweet has since been deleted, so, hmmm. It’s true as of this week’s episode, which she wrote, so I'll take it.
In “The Ex-Files,” five of the six time travelers are afflicted with hallucinogenic nemeses after a power surge. Carter gets Nathan, Allison gets Tess, Jo gets AlternaZane, Fargo gets his 5th grade tormentor, Jessica, and Grant gets his 1947 best friend, who happened to be Beverly’s dad.
The hallucinations occur in tandem with various power surges that start to bring down structures and buildings around town, causing environmental havoc to match the emotional havoc. Tess and Nathan nag Allison and Carter with a running narration about their new relationship – Tess from the standpoint of a BFF betrayal and Nathan from the standpoint that Carter will never, ever fill his (size 13, he wants you to know) shoes. It could have been a sad and painful plot point for the foursome, but was actually pretty clever, quick, and sometimes hysterically funny, with Carter immediately exasperated with Nathan and Allison just annoyed. I expected more soul-searching from Allison and a kind of closure where she actually had a chance to say goodbye to Nathan, but she seemed fairly reticent about it. Because there is still a Tess out there in this reality, her appearance had less permanent ramifications.
Jo’s encounters with AlternaZane were a strange sort of mindmeld of current Zane’s discounting his intentions for Zoe overridden by AlterZane being lovey dovey. Fargo’s former nemesis dogs him about being a weak leader and finally forces him to nut up to the general and find his backbone.
The hallucinations turn out to be a side effect of a plot by Beverly and her unnamed collective (which she convinces Grant he founded) to gain custody of a device being tested at GD. She tells him they’re trying to prevent repeats of nuclear weapon-level catastrophes of science, and she sets him onto a “DED device” that renders electronics useless. This leads Grant to repeatedly interfere with testing of the device, which gets the device loaded up for transport out of GD, where Bev’s group steals it. Once they have the device, the power surges and environmental destruction subside, but the emotional issues have to be sorted out individually.
When Grant realizes he’s been played, he is furious with Bev, until she tells him the core from the DED device can power the Bridge device and send him back to 1947 to continue his work. He’s not completely buying it and it doesn’t help that he keeps seeing her father as he was in 1947. We also find out that Bev’s dad is the guy Allison saved with a jumper cable heart boost in the premiere.
Zoe’s left in the lurch in this episode, trying to work Zane up to asking her out so she can figure out what they have, and at the end of the episode, he finds himself embroiled in a sting trumped up by Bev & co, which leaves her at odds with Carter and storming out of S.A.R.A.H.
Henry and Grace are goofy and giddy and happy and in love and immune to the MacGuffin arc because they were wearing transdermal memory-sharing patches, so we don’t get much of them.
Erica Cerra continues to layer her performance as Jo. Her tough exterior softens a bit when she finally processes that she’s been chatting with an idealized version of who she remembers as Zane but who is not exactly her Zane, and that she’d been romanticizing her memories. In a fit of confession, she processes why she turned down the proposal (she tells him they didn't work, which I think was posturing, but we'll see). She gives Zane back the engagement ring and only realizes after he has it in his hands that he’s this reality’s Zane and not her figment. She doubles over, wanting it back and unable to breathe, and her world starts to spin. There’s an interesting chat to come about why he now has two rings. She doesn't have time to really process that, though, because Zane is then suddenly accused of espionage.
The shakeout at the end is that Carter and Allison have to confess their deepest darkest to each other before they can move forward. For him, it’s that he has loved her since the pilot (which I guessed last week – yay!) and for her, it’s that she’s lost previous loves in a permanent and unfriendly fashion and she worries history will repeat. Once they sort that out, their hallucinations depart. They commence with the romance in proper as Allison beckons him to the bedroom and he’s sort of amazed at how well that went. I have to say the casual way Allison calls him “honey” did as much for me as their confessions. The Carter/Allison romance is finally off the bench. Proceed, guys and gals. Let’s see where this goes.
In short, I was very, very pleased. I guessed/hoped that the cast returns of Ed Quinn and Jaime Ray Newman were a riff of some sort and was glad to be right in assuming/hoping that the obstacles to the Carter/Allison relationship were internal and not external. That said, they had a ridiculous amount of fun with their constant commentary on Allison and Carter, and Quinn even froze his ass off, shirtless and strutting (in Vancouver) just to tweak Carter, who tells him to “put a shirt on!”
We’re two weeks from what Syfy is calling the season finale but I think this is still technically a midseason finale, to be followed by a Christmas one off in time for the holidays. Here’s hoping we get the rest of the season back sooner than later.
In “The Ex-Files,” five of the six time travelers are afflicted with hallucinogenic nemeses after a power surge. Carter gets Nathan, Allison gets Tess, Jo gets AlternaZane, Fargo gets his 5th grade tormentor, Jessica, and Grant gets his 1947 best friend, who happened to be Beverly’s dad.
The hallucinations occur in tandem with various power surges that start to bring down structures and buildings around town, causing environmental havoc to match the emotional havoc. Tess and Nathan nag Allison and Carter with a running narration about their new relationship – Tess from the standpoint of a BFF betrayal and Nathan from the standpoint that Carter will never, ever fill his (size 13, he wants you to know) shoes. It could have been a sad and painful plot point for the foursome, but was actually pretty clever, quick, and sometimes hysterically funny, with Carter immediately exasperated with Nathan and Allison just annoyed. I expected more soul-searching from Allison and a kind of closure where she actually had a chance to say goodbye to Nathan, but she seemed fairly reticent about it. Because there is still a Tess out there in this reality, her appearance had less permanent ramifications.
Jo’s encounters with AlternaZane were a strange sort of mindmeld of current Zane’s discounting his intentions for Zoe overridden by AlterZane being lovey dovey. Fargo’s former nemesis dogs him about being a weak leader and finally forces him to nut up to the general and find his backbone.
The hallucinations turn out to be a side effect of a plot by Beverly and her unnamed collective (which she convinces Grant he founded) to gain custody of a device being tested at GD. She tells him they’re trying to prevent repeats of nuclear weapon-level catastrophes of science, and she sets him onto a “DED device” that renders electronics useless. This leads Grant to repeatedly interfere with testing of the device, which gets the device loaded up for transport out of GD, where Bev’s group steals it. Once they have the device, the power surges and environmental destruction subside, but the emotional issues have to be sorted out individually.
When Grant realizes he’s been played, he is furious with Bev, until she tells him the core from the DED device can power the Bridge device and send him back to 1947 to continue his work. He’s not completely buying it and it doesn’t help that he keeps seeing her father as he was in 1947. We also find out that Bev’s dad is the guy Allison saved with a jumper cable heart boost in the premiere.
Zoe’s left in the lurch in this episode, trying to work Zane up to asking her out so she can figure out what they have, and at the end of the episode, he finds himself embroiled in a sting trumped up by Bev & co, which leaves her at odds with Carter and storming out of S.A.R.A.H.
Henry and Grace are goofy and giddy and happy and in love and immune to the MacGuffin arc because they were wearing transdermal memory-sharing patches, so we don’t get much of them.
Erica Cerra continues to layer her performance as Jo. Her tough exterior softens a bit when she finally processes that she’s been chatting with an idealized version of who she remembers as Zane but who is not exactly her Zane, and that she’d been romanticizing her memories. In a fit of confession, she processes why she turned down the proposal (she tells him they didn't work, which I think was posturing, but we'll see). She gives Zane back the engagement ring and only realizes after he has it in his hands that he’s this reality’s Zane and not her figment. She doubles over, wanting it back and unable to breathe, and her world starts to spin. There’s an interesting chat to come about why he now has two rings. She doesn't have time to really process that, though, because Zane is then suddenly accused of espionage.
The shakeout at the end is that Carter and Allison have to confess their deepest darkest to each other before they can move forward. For him, it’s that he has loved her since the pilot (which I guessed last week – yay!) and for her, it’s that she’s lost previous loves in a permanent and unfriendly fashion and she worries history will repeat. Once they sort that out, their hallucinations depart. They commence with the romance in proper as Allison beckons him to the bedroom and he’s sort of amazed at how well that went. I have to say the casual way Allison calls him “honey” did as much for me as their confessions. The Carter/Allison romance is finally off the bench. Proceed, guys and gals. Let’s see where this goes.
In short, I was very, very pleased. I guessed/hoped that the cast returns of Ed Quinn and Jaime Ray Newman were a riff of some sort and was glad to be right in assuming/hoping that the obstacles to the Carter/Allison relationship were internal and not external. That said, they had a ridiculous amount of fun with their constant commentary on Allison and Carter, and Quinn even froze his ass off, shirtless and strutting (in Vancouver) just to tweak Carter, who tells him to “put a shirt on!”
We’re two weeks from what Syfy is calling the season finale but I think this is still technically a midseason finale, to be followed by a Christmas one off in time for the holidays. Here’s hoping we get the rest of the season back sooner than later.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Summer TV Extra: TV Guide Network's 2010 Emmy Awards Coverage
It's a well known fact the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards will air today on NBC at 8ET. And just like the Oscars, TV's biggest awards show will now air live on the West Coast too, which means statues will be handed out starting at 5PM Pacific. It'll re-air on the West Coast at 8PT for those who didn't get the memo of the earlier time.
But before the big night begins, the celebrities walk the red carpet and meet the press. And for the most part they look good doing it. TV Guide Network will be there as will Hollywood 411's main man Chris Harrison who hosts the show before the Big Show. You can catch the Emmys Red Carpet with Chris Harrison Sunday August 29th at 6pm Eastern/3pm Pacific on TV Guide Network.
You can also check out TVGuide.com's interview with the Hollywood 411 host who happens to emcee some other shows you may have heard of: ABC's The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad. Anyway, Chris talks about what he will and won't be doing to get ready for this Emmy pre-show gig on TVGN.
And once the awards are a thing of the past, TV Guide Network shines the spotlight on what everyone really wants to know about: the fashion. Fashion Team host Lawrence Zarian and his panel of experts dish the details on the duds that are a dud as well as the celebrities that are fierce and fashionable on the Emmys Red Carpet Fashion Wrap premiering Monday August 30th.
Bonus Coverage: Here's a link to the TVGuide.com live fashion cam...
But before the big night begins, the celebrities walk the red carpet and meet the press. And for the most part they look good doing it. TV Guide Network will be there as will Hollywood 411's main man Chris Harrison who hosts the show before the Big Show. You can catch the Emmys Red Carpet with Chris Harrison Sunday August 29th at 6pm Eastern/3pm Pacific on TV Guide Network.
You can also check out TVGuide.com's interview with the Hollywood 411 host who happens to emcee some other shows you may have heard of: ABC's The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad. Anyway, Chris talks about what he will and won't be doing to get ready for this Emmy pre-show gig on TVGN.
And once the awards are a thing of the past, TV Guide Network shines the spotlight on what everyone really wants to know about: the fashion. Fashion Team host Lawrence Zarian and his panel of experts dish the details on the duds that are a dud as well as the celebrities that are fierce and fashionable on the Emmys Red Carpet Fashion Wrap premiering Monday August 30th.
Bonus Coverage: Here's a link to the TVGuide.com live fashion cam...
2010 Summer TV All-Star: Covert Affairs' Christopher Gorham by Heather M.
So, Chris Gorham.
I’ve been a fan since Popular, and seriously a fan since Jake 2.0, a sweet gem of a genre show, shot in Vancouver in 2003, that didn’t get past the first season on the nascent UPN. In that show, he played a meek IT tech for the NSA who couldn’t quite get into the agent circle, until he was accidentally exposed to nanotechnology that rendered him adept and powerful, a la Steve Austin.
Gorham has a physicality that belies his infectious smile and boy-next-door charm—it can be seductive and it can be scary. He’s very adept at using it both ways. Jake 2.0 worked it—putting Gorham in a variety of harm’s way and also bonding him to the lead scientist, Diane, played by Keegan Connor Tracy, with whom he had some lovely chemistry. None more so than when he was an amnesiac who found himself in a fight club, because his enhanced physical ability was the only sure thing he knew. Diane went to find him, and despite his inability to remember her as Jake, there was still a bond between them that was innately familiar and natural to him.
In the interim since Jake 2.0 ended, Gorham guested on Without a Trace (also in a heartbreaking role as a duped high school teacher) and appeared regularly on Ugly Betty, a show a bit too frenetic for my tastes, that I did not watch.
Then, last summer (MAJOR spoilers ahoy), he anchored the ensemble thriller series Harper’s Island, which was a Ten Little Indians riff on CBS about a wedding party at a beautiful destination wedding (also Vancouver) being picked off one by one by a killer or killers unknown. Gorham was the mild-mannered bridegroom, Henry, who fought alongside his friends to conquer the killer(s), only to be revealed as one of them in the series’ 12th episode. The moment where he flicks the switch from sweet, attentive groom-to-be to completely batshit crazy and stabs his fiancee is amazing to behold. And then he goes a little further into insanity, reciting his justifications in a wild-eyed yet innocent dialogue to the woman who had been his lifelong best friend and suddenly found herself his prisoner as part of a misguided soul mate quest. When she kills him and he doesn’t understand, until his last breath, what he did wrong, it’s crushing to watch.
Which brings us to Covert Affairs, the newest summer hit (already renewed for a second season) on USA. Gorham pays Auggie, a blinded former special ops soldier who now finds himself a CIA tech and confidante to the show’s lead, newly minted agent Annie Walker. He’s funny, competent, a bit of a ladies man, and itching to be a field agent again despite his inability to see. This week’s episode put Auggie in the driver’s seat, managing an operation on a hacker with whom he’d had an affair a few years prior.
The flame was rekindled, he did his job to get the data they needed from her, and then she got away, which gave him a sense of closure for his earlier betrayal that had locked her up for two years. In this episode, we also discovered that Auggie’s been running a play on Liza Hearn, a local D.C. journalist looking to crack the CIA wall. As the episode closes, Auggie returns home, defeated at losing Natasha again, and cognizant that he can’t do these ops every day, when Liza surprises him, already inside his apartment. She comes close behind him in an embrace, happy to see him. And, he smiles a wistful little smile, happy that she’s there, disappointed that she’s not Natasha, and sad that history’s about to repeat itself with a romantic betrayal in the name of the job.
We wonder whether Auggie can really pull off an operation on another woman he’s having a relationship with. I say yes. I want to see a flashback of special ops Auggie, where he’s able to see, yet blocks out what he does see in order to accomplish his (in all likelihood, quite deadly) missions vs. now, where he’s physically unable to see but also unable to manifest that same level of deception because the rest of his features give him away. Gorham can pull off this duplicity. I hope Covert Affairs lets him.
Jake 2.0 is not on DVD (Boo!) but does rotate on Syfy occasionally. Harper's Island is available on DVD. Covert Affairs runs through September on USA and rebroadcasts on USA.com and Hulu.com.
I’ve been a fan since Popular, and seriously a fan since Jake 2.0, a sweet gem of a genre show, shot in Vancouver in 2003, that didn’t get past the first season on the nascent UPN. In that show, he played a meek IT tech for the NSA who couldn’t quite get into the agent circle, until he was accidentally exposed to nanotechnology that rendered him adept and powerful, a la Steve Austin.
Gorham has a physicality that belies his infectious smile and boy-next-door charm—it can be seductive and it can be scary. He’s very adept at using it both ways. Jake 2.0 worked it—putting Gorham in a variety of harm’s way and also bonding him to the lead scientist, Diane, played by Keegan Connor Tracy, with whom he had some lovely chemistry. None more so than when he was an amnesiac who found himself in a fight club, because his enhanced physical ability was the only sure thing he knew. Diane went to find him, and despite his inability to remember her as Jake, there was still a bond between them that was innately familiar and natural to him.
In the interim since Jake 2.0 ended, Gorham guested on Without a Trace (also in a heartbreaking role as a duped high school teacher) and appeared regularly on Ugly Betty, a show a bit too frenetic for my tastes, that I did not watch.
Then, last summer (MAJOR spoilers ahoy), he anchored the ensemble thriller series Harper’s Island, which was a Ten Little Indians riff on CBS about a wedding party at a beautiful destination wedding (also Vancouver) being picked off one by one by a killer or killers unknown. Gorham was the mild-mannered bridegroom, Henry, who fought alongside his friends to conquer the killer(s), only to be revealed as one of them in the series’ 12th episode. The moment where he flicks the switch from sweet, attentive groom-to-be to completely batshit crazy and stabs his fiancee is amazing to behold. And then he goes a little further into insanity, reciting his justifications in a wild-eyed yet innocent dialogue to the woman who had been his lifelong best friend and suddenly found herself his prisoner as part of a misguided soul mate quest. When she kills him and he doesn’t understand, until his last breath, what he did wrong, it’s crushing to watch.
Which brings us to Covert Affairs, the newest summer hit (already renewed for a second season) on USA. Gorham pays Auggie, a blinded former special ops soldier who now finds himself a CIA tech and confidante to the show’s lead, newly minted agent Annie Walker. He’s funny, competent, a bit of a ladies man, and itching to be a field agent again despite his inability to see. This week’s episode put Auggie in the driver’s seat, managing an operation on a hacker with whom he’d had an affair a few years prior.
The flame was rekindled, he did his job to get the data they needed from her, and then she got away, which gave him a sense of closure for his earlier betrayal that had locked her up for two years. In this episode, we also discovered that Auggie’s been running a play on Liza Hearn, a local D.C. journalist looking to crack the CIA wall. As the episode closes, Auggie returns home, defeated at losing Natasha again, and cognizant that he can’t do these ops every day, when Liza surprises him, already inside his apartment. She comes close behind him in an embrace, happy to see him. And, he smiles a wistful little smile, happy that she’s there, disappointed that she’s not Natasha, and sad that history’s about to repeat itself with a romantic betrayal in the name of the job.
We wonder whether Auggie can really pull off an operation on another woman he’s having a relationship with. I say yes. I want to see a flashback of special ops Auggie, where he’s able to see, yet blocks out what he does see in order to accomplish his (in all likelihood, quite deadly) missions vs. now, where he’s physically unable to see but also unable to manifest that same level of deception because the rest of his features give him away. Gorham can pull off this duplicity. I hope Covert Affairs lets him.
Jake 2.0 is not on DVD (Boo!) but does rotate on Syfy occasionally. Harper's Island is available on DVD. Covert Affairs runs through September on USA and rebroadcasts on USA.com and Hulu.com.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
The Summer 7: WGA Panel featuring Emmy-nominated Writers from Modern Family, Glee, FNL etc. by Tina Charles
7 things I learned at Thursday night's often hilarious Sublime Primetime panel that featured some of this year's Emmy-nominated writers from TV miniseries, sitcoms and dramas (courtesy of the Writers Guild Foundation):
The 62nd Emmy Awards air on Sunday, August 29th on NBC @ 8PM/Eastern.
The night's featured players included:
- "Television, I don't know if anyone knows this, is super easy." - Glee's Ian Brennan said this after moderator and Lost guru Carlton Cuse pointed out how Brennan went from actor to being nominated for an Emmy for his very first writing gig.
- We now know the format for Conan O'Brien's upcoming TBS late night talk show: "Have you seen the other two? Kind of like that. Guests, a band, celebrities selling b---s--t. Pretty much like that." Love that this "insight" came from the always funny 2010 Emmy-nominee (and not to mention Conan sidekick) Andy Richter.
- Not that this is a shocker but The Office's Mindy Kaling is freakin' hilarious. As is Modern Family co-creator/Executive Producer Steve Levitan and Lost showunner/Executive Producer Cuse who had to face down a few jokes about the lack of answers from his Emmy-nominated show that's up for Best Drama series. He was a trooper.
- The audience loved CBS' The Good Wife. When it came time for the audience portion of the Q&A many questions were thrown at husband-wife writing team and creators of CBS' hit drama Robert and Michelle King. News (at least to me) was that the married couple originally pitched Good Wife to ABC but the alphabet network passed.
- None of the Glee "boys" (Brennan, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk) have seen Disney Channel's High School Musical. This band of three were referred to as "the Glee boys" or "the Glee guys" so often that Ian at one point insisted they had real names. Very funny moment.
- Mindy follows her Office character on Twitter.
- We learned what these writers watch on TV: Kaling adores AMC's Breaking Bad; Levitan tunes into Showtime's Weeds; Murphy is a big, big fan of A&E's Hoarders; HBO's Deadwood pretty much ruined TV for Richter because he loved it so much although he has been known to tune into Bravo's Top Chef and "whatever's on." The Pacific's Robert Schenkkan and Friday Night Lights scribe Rolin Jones were completely devoted to The Wire. Jones got real specific and said he was way into The Wire Seasons 3 and 4 the most.
The 62nd Emmy Awards air on Sunday, August 29th on NBC @ 8PM/Eastern.
The night's featured players included:
- From Lost: Carlton Cuse who moderated the evening.
- From The Office: Mindy Kaling
- From The Pacific: Bruce C. McKenna
- Also from The Pacific: Robert Schenkkan
- From Modern Family: Steve Levitan
- From Friday Night Lights: Rolin Jones
- From The Good Wife: Robert King
- Also from The Good Wife: Michelle King
- From Glee: Brad Falchuk
- Also from Glee: Ryan Murphy
- One more from Glee: Brad Falchuk
- Conan's Andy Richter
Drop Dead Diva Extra
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Rescue Me: Goodbye by Sabrina A. Taylor
Man, I can’t believe next week is the season finale already. It seems like we just got into the groove of this season.
The episode picks up at the family dinner and an uncomfortable Tommy wondering if Mickey has told or will tell Janet about is ‘almost’ indiscretion with Sheila. It was a hysterical seen watching a very Tommy squirm so much that he begins to choke on his food. Sheila of course appears and the truth comes out…the whole truth that nothing really happened and that Tommy really loves Janet. It seems like Tommy and Janet are really going to give it a go. Tommy even passes a liquor temptation test that Janet gives him when she asks him to choose between one last drink of whiskey or vodka and he pours both down the kitchen sink. It’s nice to see although I personally prefer to see Sheila and Tommy together. Those two really put the fun in dysfunctional
Tommy promises to stay away from Sheila and Damian but of course it’s a promise he can’t keep. When he was strongly declaring his love for Janet he went a little overboard denouncing his feelings for Sheila and It seems that he had some guilty feelings for saying he never loved her. So after the dust has settled at home with Janet he gives Sheila a call and she is genuinely hurt and asks him to leave her and her son alone.
Lou gets some really bad news from his physician. He had a minor heart attack and is told that he has to quit work. Of course Lou refuses to accept this and returns to work and when the house is called to a fire at a coffin factory Lou is unable to perform and can’t leave the building on his own. As the guys rush to his aid Damian falls victim to the building giving way and we are left not knowing if he makes it or not. The irony of this is heavy as earlier in the episode Damian quits after having a conversation with Mickey and then has a talk with Tommy and changes his mind.
If Damian does not make it will this push Tommy and Sheila back together, as grief is what united them in the first place? Is this really the end for Lou…I can’t even imagine that firehouse without him.
The episode picks up at the family dinner and an uncomfortable Tommy wondering if Mickey has told or will tell Janet about is ‘almost’ indiscretion with Sheila. It was a hysterical seen watching a very Tommy squirm so much that he begins to choke on his food. Sheila of course appears and the truth comes out…the whole truth that nothing really happened and that Tommy really loves Janet. It seems like Tommy and Janet are really going to give it a go. Tommy even passes a liquor temptation test that Janet gives him when she asks him to choose between one last drink of whiskey or vodka and he pours both down the kitchen sink. It’s nice to see although I personally prefer to see Sheila and Tommy together. Those two really put the fun in dysfunctional
Tommy promises to stay away from Sheila and Damian but of course it’s a promise he can’t keep. When he was strongly declaring his love for Janet he went a little overboard denouncing his feelings for Sheila and It seems that he had some guilty feelings for saying he never loved her. So after the dust has settled at home with Janet he gives Sheila a call and she is genuinely hurt and asks him to leave her and her son alone.
Lou gets some really bad news from his physician. He had a minor heart attack and is told that he has to quit work. Of course Lou refuses to accept this and returns to work and when the house is called to a fire at a coffin factory Lou is unable to perform and can’t leave the building on his own. As the guys rush to his aid Damian falls victim to the building giving way and we are left not knowing if he makes it or not. The irony of this is heavy as earlier in the episode Damian quits after having a conversation with Mickey and then has a talk with Tommy and changes his mind.
If Damian does not make it will this push Tommy and Sheila back together, as grief is what united them in the first place? Is this really the end for Lou…I can’t even imagine that firehouse without him.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Haven: Sketchy by Heather M
A lot is being written lately about watching TV online instead of on an actual television. I watch shows online fairly regularly, and for me, it’s always a much more intimate experience as a viewer because I’m sitting close to the screen, laptop on my lap. The only downside is that I like closed captioning. I’m a dialogue gal that way. And while some shows (thanks, Human Target!) are cc’d online, the vast majority are not, which sucks for folks who genuinely need the captions. I watched Haven on Hulu (without captions) this week and may take to rewatching episodes this way. It’s such a visually pretty show. This week’s Trouble du jour, not so much with the pretty.
The episode, funnily enough titled “Sketchy,” centers on folks of rather sketchy repute falling to harm in extremely violent ways. The first, a Wall Street investor, crumples up into a ball on a docked boat after all of his extremity bones break at 90-degree angles. The second victim, a shady real estate broker, is literally shredded. The third victim, Jimmy, isn’t sketchy, just wrong place, wrong time, and his facial features start to disappear while Audrey and Nathan interview him. Thankfully Eleanor knocks him out with a handy morphine drip while the investigation continues. It’s not long before Audrey and Nathan figure out that the injuries are the result of actions being performed on sketches of the men.
It turns out that Vicky, who works on the boat with Jimmy (her fiance) and her dad, Alec, is an artist. She realized her ability when Richards, the captain of the boat, crumpled a sketch and caused the death of the seal in the drawing. Alec is into Richards for gambling debts, so Richards has blackmailed Vicky into providing sketches of his business clients for leverage to collect other outstanding debts with the promise that he'll forgive Alec's debts, and then things get ugly. Richards kidnaps Alec, steals all of Vicky's sketches, and is essentially holding the whole town hostage via a sketch she did from an overlook.
Audrey wrangles Duke to help and he gets onto the boat under the guise of a wine deal, rescues Alec, and takes down Richards by punching his sketch (after handily picking the safe where the the drawings were stashed). Richards dies when a scuffle on the dock sends his sketch into the water and Nathan can’t retrieve it. Audrey gives the sketches to Eleanor for safe keeping and fiance Jimmy gets his features back.
On the domestic front, Jess comes to the station under the guise of reporting a prowler with ridiculous features and when Nathan completely misses that she’s hitting on him, Audrey very loudly clues him in. [Sidebar: Jess invites him to a venison dinner because she shot a deer and when Audrey calls her on that being opposite her philosophy toward the animals last week, she gets a quippy answer, so that's a character reversal.] Later, Jess helps on their case when they ask her to stand by with a tranquilizer gun during Jimmy's interview (before they have ID'd Vicky). When the interview goes south, Nathan balks at getting involved with her because it's too dangerous. After the case is wrapped up, he turns up at her door for a “security review” with a bottle of wine behind his back, although I couldn’t tell if it was one of the 68 Chateau Latours from Duke.
Duke and Audrey continue their banter, and at one point he slips a comment about Audrey being Haven’s finest ass (and Nathan, too but a different kind of ass) and I’m not totally clear on why she laughed vs. letting him have it. It came off sort of skeevy instead of teasing. At the end of the episode, Audrey hangs out at his restaurant draining martinis to thank him for his help, and the way Duke asks if they are happy martinis or sad martinis redeems the ass comment.
Audrey continues her bonding with Eleanor and expresses her exasperation with the Troubles and wanting to kick them in ass while also wanting to get the hell out of Haven but seemingly being unable to do either. She has a cute scene with Nathan when their investigation leads them to an art store where we found out Nathan’s into decoupage and Audrey profiles him that because he can’t feel, his sense of sight is stronger (after he explains what the decoupage does to enrich the colors of the images). We also get Audrey doing her best over-the-top bad cop when she tries to rile each suspect into a rage to trigger their suspected ability, which while funny, could have gone either way if she'd been successful.
In all, this was a solid outing but I sort of guessed at things as we went along even though I was unspoiled. I liked that the episode’s title was a double entendre but I think it also tipped the plot early. It did feel more on track with the actual timeline of the show, in terms of Audrey trying to navigate her partnership with Nathan and friendship with Eleanor, and whatever she has with Duke. I think if this show was on pay cable, she and Duke would be FWBs. I’m glad they’re not. I like that they haven’t really defined what the energy is there. I think Duke is a good guy trying to pass himself off as more bad ass than he actually is, which works.
There's another new episode this Friday (thank you, Syfy). You can watch this week’s episode again on Syfy during the week and now on Hulu or Syfy.com. Another bonus of watching online – you actually get to hear all of Shawn Pierce’s moody score over the end credits.
The episode, funnily enough titled “Sketchy,” centers on folks of rather sketchy repute falling to harm in extremely violent ways. The first, a Wall Street investor, crumples up into a ball on a docked boat after all of his extremity bones break at 90-degree angles. The second victim, a shady real estate broker, is literally shredded. The third victim, Jimmy, isn’t sketchy, just wrong place, wrong time, and his facial features start to disappear while Audrey and Nathan interview him. Thankfully Eleanor knocks him out with a handy morphine drip while the investigation continues. It’s not long before Audrey and Nathan figure out that the injuries are the result of actions being performed on sketches of the men.
It turns out that Vicky, who works on the boat with Jimmy (her fiance) and her dad, Alec, is an artist. She realized her ability when Richards, the captain of the boat, crumpled a sketch and caused the death of the seal in the drawing. Alec is into Richards for gambling debts, so Richards has blackmailed Vicky into providing sketches of his business clients for leverage to collect other outstanding debts with the promise that he'll forgive Alec's debts, and then things get ugly. Richards kidnaps Alec, steals all of Vicky's sketches, and is essentially holding the whole town hostage via a sketch she did from an overlook.
Audrey wrangles Duke to help and he gets onto the boat under the guise of a wine deal, rescues Alec, and takes down Richards by punching his sketch (after handily picking the safe where the the drawings were stashed). Richards dies when a scuffle on the dock sends his sketch into the water and Nathan can’t retrieve it. Audrey gives the sketches to Eleanor for safe keeping and fiance Jimmy gets his features back.
On the domestic front, Jess comes to the station under the guise of reporting a prowler with ridiculous features and when Nathan completely misses that she’s hitting on him, Audrey very loudly clues him in. [Sidebar: Jess invites him to a venison dinner because she shot a deer and when Audrey calls her on that being opposite her philosophy toward the animals last week, she gets a quippy answer, so that's a character reversal.] Later, Jess helps on their case when they ask her to stand by with a tranquilizer gun during Jimmy's interview (before they have ID'd Vicky). When the interview goes south, Nathan balks at getting involved with her because it's too dangerous. After the case is wrapped up, he turns up at her door for a “security review” with a bottle of wine behind his back, although I couldn’t tell if it was one of the 68 Chateau Latours from Duke.
Duke and Audrey continue their banter, and at one point he slips a comment about Audrey being Haven’s finest ass (and Nathan, too but a different kind of ass) and I’m not totally clear on why she laughed vs. letting him have it. It came off sort of skeevy instead of teasing. At the end of the episode, Audrey hangs out at his restaurant draining martinis to thank him for his help, and the way Duke asks if they are happy martinis or sad martinis redeems the ass comment.
Audrey continues her bonding with Eleanor and expresses her exasperation with the Troubles and wanting to kick them in ass while also wanting to get the hell out of Haven but seemingly being unable to do either. She has a cute scene with Nathan when their investigation leads them to an art store where we found out Nathan’s into decoupage and Audrey profiles him that because he can’t feel, his sense of sight is stronger (after he explains what the decoupage does to enrich the colors of the images). We also get Audrey doing her best over-the-top bad cop when she tries to rile each suspect into a rage to trigger their suspected ability, which while funny, could have gone either way if she'd been successful.
In all, this was a solid outing but I sort of guessed at things as we went along even though I was unspoiled. I liked that the episode’s title was a double entendre but I think it also tipped the plot early. It did feel more on track with the actual timeline of the show, in terms of Audrey trying to navigate her partnership with Nathan and friendship with Eleanor, and whatever she has with Duke. I think if this show was on pay cable, she and Duke would be FWBs. I’m glad they’re not. I like that they haven’t really defined what the energy is there. I think Duke is a good guy trying to pass himself off as more bad ass than he actually is, which works.
There's another new episode this Friday (thank you, Syfy). You can watch this week’s episode again on Syfy during the week and now on Hulu or Syfy.com. Another bonus of watching online – you actually get to hear all of Shawn Pierce’s moody score over the end credits.
Monday, August 23, 2010
The Big C: Summer Time by Kara Howland
Well, I liked this week’s episode more than I liked the premiere. That is definitely saying something.
Cathy is an interesting character. She’s been diagnosed with Stage 4 skin cancer yet she’s recently taken up smoking. She’s a teacher who is kind of a know-it-all (but not in a bad way) yet she doesn’t know that much about what those around her really need. I think she’s trying to do right by her son and her student Andrea, but I’m not sure they can be “fixed.” Cathy’s also trying to fix her relationship with herself, which I find the most compelling story. I like that she’s done putting up with the things that drive her crazy. She’s going to turn her son into a good man. She’s going to turn Andrea into a healthy young woman. I’m not sure there’s anything she can do about Sean or Paul, but I do think she’s trying to put some quality time into those relationships to make them work. And, I guess, she’s putting her true self into her visits with Doctor Todd.
There is absolutely potential in this show and I think it’s just starting to be realized. I like the humor here and even though I don’t like Oliver Platt’s character, he plays him well and makes him really funny. It’s unintentional, but it’ s still funny. I’m very interested to see where this will go so I’ll keep watching (but not writing) for at least for a few more episodes.
Cathy is an interesting character. She’s been diagnosed with Stage 4 skin cancer yet she’s recently taken up smoking. She’s a teacher who is kind of a know-it-all (but not in a bad way) yet she doesn’t know that much about what those around her really need. I think she’s trying to do right by her son and her student Andrea, but I’m not sure they can be “fixed.” Cathy’s also trying to fix her relationship with herself, which I find the most compelling story. I like that she’s done putting up with the things that drive her crazy. She’s going to turn her son into a good man. She’s going to turn Andrea into a healthy young woman. I’m not sure there’s anything she can do about Sean or Paul, but I do think she’s trying to put some quality time into those relationships to make them work. And, I guess, she’s putting her true self into her visits with Doctor Todd.
There is absolutely potential in this show and I think it’s just starting to be realized. I like the humor here and even though I don’t like Oliver Platt’s character, he plays him well and makes him really funny. It’s unintentional, but it’ s still funny. I’m very interested to see where this will go so I’ll keep watching (but not writing) for at least for a few more episodes.
Eureka: Stoned by Heather M
I’ve always felt like shipper was a slag term coined by folks who didn’t want said relationship to happen. Sort of like “Go sit in the corner with your shippers!” I tend to not buy into potential relationships on TV shows because at some point you’re likely going to get screwed by TPTB. J.J. Abrams and I do not get along because he’s a fan of what I like to call love geometry—the more angles and obstacles the better (from Felicity through Alias through Lost and now Fringe. Trust me on this. He’s bent.) Occasionally, though, a show will get it right and reward viewers for giving dozens of hours of their time to the characters and the relationships. This week's Eureka made a leap in the right direction for Jack and Allison. Oh, and the show was renewed last week for a fifth season. Sweet!
The episode find Zoe home on a school break and falling back into friendly rapport with Jo, Grace, Vince, and a new HoloSkype (where can I get this?) buddy, to be determined. While Zoe catches up with Jo at Cafe Diem and dishes about Mr. TBD, Carter watches Allison and Jenna with Grant across the restaurant and gets increasingly itchy at their ease with each other. They head outside and Grant is sort of working up to asking Allison out on a proper date when Carter bails into the conversation citing police business. Grant begs off and then Carter says he needs to speak with Allison, and it’s a fairly long conversation, so he invites her to dinner. She happily agrees and you see it all over her face that it’s not a date for her but Carter is still pleased. When she walks away, he asks himself why it took him four years to do that. Can I get a “DUH!”
Carter’s newest case breaks out in the would-be basement of Jo’s new would-be home, which has encountered slabus interruptus because the local geo expert (who’s one of Zoe’s mentors from Tesla) has discovered a very, very old and very, very rare….pinky on the site. Jo is not happy. She wails about her dojo and her indoor firing range and her beautiful home that has got to get in gear because she needs her space.
Later that night, Carter is natted up for his date and Zoe tuts at him and says she’ll take a picture, but realizes she left her phone at the dig site, so they go to fetch it and find that her mentor is frozen in cement (think Han Solo). They take him back to GD and assume he’s dead when his heart starts to beat. Then they assume he’s encased in cement until Allison realizes he is cemented. She comments on Carter’s appearance when he arrives and teasingly asks him if he had a date, and he laughs and says yes, and then she gets it that he meant with her. She says he hadn’t mentioned the kiss from 1947 so she assumed that was the end of that and thought they were just having dinner. He’s goofy giddy that she’s been thinking about the kiss. Duty calls and the chat is tabled. Also at GD, Zoe runs into Zane and tips Carter that he is her mystery guy.
Elsewhere, Henry is wooing Grace and it turns out his idea of a perfect first date already was a perfect first date for Grace and AlternaHenry. Sangria, picnic, and beautiful beach sunset projected inside the garage. When Grace confesses she’s been there before, Henry’s hurt but determined to find another way to woo. Grace says she’s happy for the effort. Henry asks Carter what to do and he doesn’t know but says Henry should try the opposite approach and ask the least likely person for advice. Henry says he thought was Carter and thanks him anyway and goes on.
Grace retreats to the spa run by Keegan Connor Tracy (still rocking an awesome haircut, BTW, and sidebar: she needs to guest on Covert Affairs so we can get her back onscreen with Chris Gorham. Just saying). Grace and Zoe, who’s taking a break from cemented mentor, talk about boys and brains and wooing. I’d have to go back and look at last season, but it seems like they went way up on the geekspeak with Zoe this season, or she’s just a REALLY fast learner at Harvard. The spa treatment has the unintended side effect of combining with the properties of the dig site, and soon Zoe starts to cement, too.
Everybody rushes to save her and they realize the superpotent steam from the spa is the ticket because it can penetrate the stone. Once Zoe is recovered, Zane drops by and they're very flirty. Jo comes in and sees them and is devastated, doubly so because she encouraged Zoe, which she tells Carter. He stammers over telling her maybe it won’t last and she asks what if it does.
Allison comes out in the hall to discuss Zoe, and Carter finally mans up. He asks her if she thought going out with Grant was a date and she says yes. Then he asks why going out with him wasn’t, and she says they have a friendship that she won’t jeopardize by pursuing a relationship with him, so she can’t think about dating him. He takes that in and walks away from her. The camera locks on her for a few moments and you finally see it register that she’s sad about that because maybe it would be worth the risk and she might lose him anyway by rejecting the possibility. While she's lost in that, Carter dips back into the frame and finally lays the mother of all kisses on her. They keep kissing and smiling and it’s ON!
Out in the foyer, Henry swoops Grace into an embrace and starts singing to her. Before she can protest too much, Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me with Science” starts blasting amid strobe lights with Fargo DJing from above. Henry swings her around and sings along and she is enchanted (as she should be) and laughing.
Grant is away from the main story this week, saddled with a potential IRS investigation because Larry listed 11 dependents for him instead of 1 on the W2. I’m not totally sure what the arc was with Larry, but he later delivers a mystery gift basket to Grant and then seems to sort of imply he wants to buddy up to him. I took it as a romantic gesture but it may be that Larry is just socially awkward about how to pursue a bromance. The gift basket entices Grant to a rendezvous point where he comes across the villainess Beverly (whom we last saw in season 2), and she says she has ties to him via her father. Dun. Dun. DUN.
So, we have Carter and Allison finally moving forward, Grace and Henry getting acquainted and Zane and Zoe maybe warming up to something. Busy week! The episode was directed by Joe Morton, who did an awesome job with all the threads. I really wasn’t all that into the MacGuffin this week. There was so much going on that that was the thing of least interest to me. I will always watch Keegan Connor Tracy so I hope they bring her back—it would certainly work for the ladies to have a hang out outside of Cafe Diem. I loved that Fargo’s nerdiest of ideas was perfect for Grace and Henry. I was in middle school when that song was in fairly constant rotation on MTV (back when they were a video network, yes, really), so it’s always been a silly special song to me.
Not sure what to make of Beverly’s return. That may be too many cooks in the kitchen—sort of like the arc with Frances Fisher. I don’t know that Grant needed a secret spy/villainy tangent. I was happy with them exploring his acclimation to living 63 years outside his frame of reference.
The Zoe/Zane thing could be cute in the now, but I think it'll be terribly traumatic for them and for Jo should they ever find out about the alternaverse where Jo and Zane were together. Because Zoe is Jo's friend, I think the harder thing for her to take would be that Jo is grieving the loss of her version of Zane and still looking for signs of him in the Zane of this reality.
Per what I wrote last week, I’m completely down with Carter and Allison being allowed to pursue a relationship. It’s genuine. Carter has loved her pretty much since the pilot, and has seriously pined for her when she wasn’t available to him. He's bratted out a few times but has otherwise been a constant, platonic companion, through Nathan's death and Jenna's birth. Let them try this. This is a smart show. I think they can do this right. I hope they do this right.
We had a glimpse of Nathan in the teaser for next week. Producer Amy Berg said on Twitter over the weekend that Ed Quinn, who plays Nathan, isn’t back on the show. So, fingers crossed this is a one-off driveby or a dream or a memory. Only two episodes until the hiatus. Again with the BOOO.
The episode find Zoe home on a school break and falling back into friendly rapport with Jo, Grace, Vince, and a new HoloSkype (where can I get this?) buddy, to be determined. While Zoe catches up with Jo at Cafe Diem and dishes about Mr. TBD, Carter watches Allison and Jenna with Grant across the restaurant and gets increasingly itchy at their ease with each other. They head outside and Grant is sort of working up to asking Allison out on a proper date when Carter bails into the conversation citing police business. Grant begs off and then Carter says he needs to speak with Allison, and it’s a fairly long conversation, so he invites her to dinner. She happily agrees and you see it all over her face that it’s not a date for her but Carter is still pleased. When she walks away, he asks himself why it took him four years to do that. Can I get a “DUH!”
Carter’s newest case breaks out in the would-be basement of Jo’s new would-be home, which has encountered slabus interruptus because the local geo expert (who’s one of Zoe’s mentors from Tesla) has discovered a very, very old and very, very rare….pinky on the site. Jo is not happy. She wails about her dojo and her indoor firing range and her beautiful home that has got to get in gear because she needs her space.
Later that night, Carter is natted up for his date and Zoe tuts at him and says she’ll take a picture, but realizes she left her phone at the dig site, so they go to fetch it and find that her mentor is frozen in cement (think Han Solo). They take him back to GD and assume he’s dead when his heart starts to beat. Then they assume he’s encased in cement until Allison realizes he is cemented. She comments on Carter’s appearance when he arrives and teasingly asks him if he had a date, and he laughs and says yes, and then she gets it that he meant with her. She says he hadn’t mentioned the kiss from 1947 so she assumed that was the end of that and thought they were just having dinner. He’s goofy giddy that she’s been thinking about the kiss. Duty calls and the chat is tabled. Also at GD, Zoe runs into Zane and tips Carter that he is her mystery guy.
Elsewhere, Henry is wooing Grace and it turns out his idea of a perfect first date already was a perfect first date for Grace and AlternaHenry. Sangria, picnic, and beautiful beach sunset projected inside the garage. When Grace confesses she’s been there before, Henry’s hurt but determined to find another way to woo. Grace says she’s happy for the effort. Henry asks Carter what to do and he doesn’t know but says Henry should try the opposite approach and ask the least likely person for advice. Henry says he thought was Carter and thanks him anyway and goes on.
Grace retreats to the spa run by Keegan Connor Tracy (still rocking an awesome haircut, BTW, and sidebar: she needs to guest on Covert Affairs so we can get her back onscreen with Chris Gorham. Just saying). Grace and Zoe, who’s taking a break from cemented mentor, talk about boys and brains and wooing. I’d have to go back and look at last season, but it seems like they went way up on the geekspeak with Zoe this season, or she’s just a REALLY fast learner at Harvard. The spa treatment has the unintended side effect of combining with the properties of the dig site, and soon Zoe starts to cement, too.
Everybody rushes to save her and they realize the superpotent steam from the spa is the ticket because it can penetrate the stone. Once Zoe is recovered, Zane drops by and they're very flirty. Jo comes in and sees them and is devastated, doubly so because she encouraged Zoe, which she tells Carter. He stammers over telling her maybe it won’t last and she asks what if it does.
Allison comes out in the hall to discuss Zoe, and Carter finally mans up. He asks her if she thought going out with Grant was a date and she says yes. Then he asks why going out with him wasn’t, and she says they have a friendship that she won’t jeopardize by pursuing a relationship with him, so she can’t think about dating him. He takes that in and walks away from her. The camera locks on her for a few moments and you finally see it register that she’s sad about that because maybe it would be worth the risk and she might lose him anyway by rejecting the possibility. While she's lost in that, Carter dips back into the frame and finally lays the mother of all kisses on her. They keep kissing and smiling and it’s ON!
Out in the foyer, Henry swoops Grace into an embrace and starts singing to her. Before she can protest too much, Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me with Science” starts blasting amid strobe lights with Fargo DJing from above. Henry swings her around and sings along and she is enchanted (as she should be) and laughing.
Grant is away from the main story this week, saddled with a potential IRS investigation because Larry listed 11 dependents for him instead of 1 on the W2. I’m not totally sure what the arc was with Larry, but he later delivers a mystery gift basket to Grant and then seems to sort of imply he wants to buddy up to him. I took it as a romantic gesture but it may be that Larry is just socially awkward about how to pursue a bromance. The gift basket entices Grant to a rendezvous point where he comes across the villainess Beverly (whom we last saw in season 2), and she says she has ties to him via her father. Dun. Dun. DUN.
So, we have Carter and Allison finally moving forward, Grace and Henry getting acquainted and Zane and Zoe maybe warming up to something. Busy week! The episode was directed by Joe Morton, who did an awesome job with all the threads. I really wasn’t all that into the MacGuffin this week. There was so much going on that that was the thing of least interest to me. I will always watch Keegan Connor Tracy so I hope they bring her back—it would certainly work for the ladies to have a hang out outside of Cafe Diem. I loved that Fargo’s nerdiest of ideas was perfect for Grace and Henry. I was in middle school when that song was in fairly constant rotation on MTV (back when they were a video network, yes, really), so it’s always been a silly special song to me.
Not sure what to make of Beverly’s return. That may be too many cooks in the kitchen—sort of like the arc with Frances Fisher. I don’t know that Grant needed a secret spy/villainy tangent. I was happy with them exploring his acclimation to living 63 years outside his frame of reference.
The Zoe/Zane thing could be cute in the now, but I think it'll be terribly traumatic for them and for Jo should they ever find out about the alternaverse where Jo and Zane were together. Because Zoe is Jo's friend, I think the harder thing for her to take would be that Jo is grieving the loss of her version of Zane and still looking for signs of him in the Zane of this reality.
Per what I wrote last week, I’m completely down with Carter and Allison being allowed to pursue a relationship. It’s genuine. Carter has loved her pretty much since the pilot, and has seriously pined for her when she wasn’t available to him. He's bratted out a few times but has otherwise been a constant, platonic companion, through Nathan's death and Jenna's birth. Let them try this. This is a smart show. I think they can do this right. I hope they do this right.
We had a glimpse of Nathan in the teaser for next week. Producer Amy Berg said on Twitter over the weekend that Ed Quinn, who plays Nathan, isn’t back on the show. So, fingers crossed this is a one-off driveby or a dream or a memory. Only two episodes until the hiatus. Again with the BOOO.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
White Collar: In the Red by Claudia Charles
The opening sequence with Peter, Diane and Jones was kind of funny. Peter is definitely always about trusting his gut when he's investigating and Jones bet against him that the jewel thief would be an insider. This opening was quite interesting because from what was occurring you would think that this was going to be all about thievery but instead we have an adoption scam gone bad for Katherine McMillan. She is a mother who is trying to keep her child from being taken away and turns to nefarious means in order to achieve this. I thought it was rather touching that Neal tried to get her to not follow through because he saw that she had her child in the car.
Mozzie breaking into Sara’s apartment seemed like a good idea but did they really think that Sara didn’t know that envelope wasn’t there? This seemed very implausible that they would not have taken that into consideration before breaking into her apartment. The scene with Sara having Neal submit to a polygraph was rather annoying. Can one thwart a polygraph so easily by using a thumbtack? I don’t know how accurate that was. Sara was rather annoying if not dogged in her pursuit of Neal this week. However, the resolution of this situation hit the spot as Sara was able to connect with Neal in his desire to know what happened to Kate.
Luke Donovan was played to perfect sleaziness by John Larroquette who seems to be sporting the “I haven’t worked in a while” beard. Donovan is the international adoption lawyer who shakes down his clients because of his gambling debts. His prowess with gambling seems to be limited because his huge losses are drawing the attention of the Czechian mob.
We learned in the episode that Mozzie was in foster care and was never adopted. He really gets rather heated about the fact that Donovan is scamming adoptive parents. This does give a little insight to some of Mozzie’s issues and quirks.
Loved Diane and Jones going undercover. You know that I love any time that they use these two in more of the story. They did make a very rich looking Hamptons couple. Diane insisting they adopt a little girl was in character for her. Loved it.
The gambling scenes were pretty standard fare. I did feel that Neal played up to Donovan a little too quickly. It seemed rather obvious what he was trying to do. Donovan’s tell that Peter was able to identify through his gut work played out very subtly.
I enjoyed how Peter enlisted the help of the Czechian mob by letting them know that Donovan was exploiting Czechian children. It seemed rather simplistic but it was an effective argument and since the FBI was not technically after the other shady dealings it worked. I wonder if the real FBI would cut such a deal.
I feel that season 2 is progressing quite well and that the writers have been doing an excellent job of finding situations that are new and different to use Neal as a con-man. I enjoyed the first season but I felt that it was somewhat repetitive at times. Glad to see that they have learned from this and have upped their game. I have been reading that Tiffani Thiessen is back to work so here’s hoping that we are almost done with the fake San Francisco back drops.
Random Thoughts
John Larroquette has played some wonderful roles in the past. He is another actor who needs to find a home in a series. For me his most notable role is when he played "Dan Fielding" on Night Court. I loved that show growing up and loved to hate the sleazy lawyer that Larroquette played. His acting chops have always been impeccable.
Mozzie breaking into Sara’s apartment seemed like a good idea but did they really think that Sara didn’t know that envelope wasn’t there? This seemed very implausible that they would not have taken that into consideration before breaking into her apartment. The scene with Sara having Neal submit to a polygraph was rather annoying. Can one thwart a polygraph so easily by using a thumbtack? I don’t know how accurate that was. Sara was rather annoying if not dogged in her pursuit of Neal this week. However, the resolution of this situation hit the spot as Sara was able to connect with Neal in his desire to know what happened to Kate.
Luke Donovan was played to perfect sleaziness by John Larroquette who seems to be sporting the “I haven’t worked in a while” beard. Donovan is the international adoption lawyer who shakes down his clients because of his gambling debts. His prowess with gambling seems to be limited because his huge losses are drawing the attention of the Czechian mob.
We learned in the episode that Mozzie was in foster care and was never adopted. He really gets rather heated about the fact that Donovan is scamming adoptive parents. This does give a little insight to some of Mozzie’s issues and quirks.
Loved Diane and Jones going undercover. You know that I love any time that they use these two in more of the story. They did make a very rich looking Hamptons couple. Diane insisting they adopt a little girl was in character for her. Loved it.
The gambling scenes were pretty standard fare. I did feel that Neal played up to Donovan a little too quickly. It seemed rather obvious what he was trying to do. Donovan’s tell that Peter was able to identify through his gut work played out very subtly.
I enjoyed how Peter enlisted the help of the Czechian mob by letting them know that Donovan was exploiting Czechian children. It seemed rather simplistic but it was an effective argument and since the FBI was not technically after the other shady dealings it worked. I wonder if the real FBI would cut such a deal.
I feel that season 2 is progressing quite well and that the writers have been doing an excellent job of finding situations that are new and different to use Neal as a con-man. I enjoyed the first season but I felt that it was somewhat repetitive at times. Glad to see that they have learned from this and have upped their game. I have been reading that Tiffani Thiessen is back to work so here’s hoping that we are almost done with the fake San Francisco back drops.
Random Thoughts
John Larroquette has played some wonderful roles in the past. He is another actor who needs to find a home in a series. For me his most notable role is when he played "Dan Fielding" on Night Court. I loved that show growing up and loved to hate the sleazy lawyer that Larroquette played. His acting chops have always been impeccable.
White Collar: Unfinished business by Claudia Charles
This was a solid episode of White Collar. I enjoyed the opening sequence between Peter and Neal with Neal waxing poetic about going to this restaurant where they employ molecular gastronomy. I have to confess here that the only reason I am aware of what molecular gastronomy is from my years of being a Top Chef viewer. So I found it to be totally cool that I understood what Neal was talking about.
The introduction of Sara Ellis
Neal’s ongoing investigation into Kate’s death really progressed this week. Matt Bomer effectively conveyed how much he really cared about Kate. We saw this throughout the episode and it resulted in Neal needing to cozy up to Sara in order to gain access to her apartment to retrieve the voice data recorder from the FAA. Watching Neal having to finesse himself around Sara
Loved Neal’s look as Mr. Black. His slicked back hair made him look more menacing but in a very sexy way. A sign that things were not going their way was that the limo jammed Neal’s communication signal. Definitely a sign of the level of sophistication of the big bad for the episode. So Neal knows a thing or two about guns. I was a little surprised by that because I seem to remember that he has not been in favor of their usage in previous episodes.
The introduction of the latest big bad took about 30 minutes. In some ways
The scene between Peter
Random Thoughts
The actor playing Roy
John Pyper-Ferguson recently played a very significant role in the Syfy series Caprica. He's Eric Stoltz’s business rival who is turning up the pressure on the rivalry.
Random Thoughts on Mad Men: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Kara Howland
Don Draper is a genius. He certainly knows how to think outside the box, which helps the firm land Honda despite Roger’s racist comments. I like how Pete is really stepping up and making his opinions heard. And it’s different then the way he’s presented his ideas in the past. Before I felt like he was whiny and needy. Now I feel like he’s actually earned his right to say something to someone like Roger. Good job.
Betty and Don are at their most interesting when they fight. I love their interactions but I do hope they can put their personal acrimony aside to help their daughter because Sally is crying out for attention. She’s clearly still affected by the death of her grandfather and the absence of her father. I hope talking to Dr. Edna helps her.
Miss Blankenship is still amazing with that comic timing. I hope Don suffers through her for at least one more episode.
Betty and Don are at their most interesting when they fight. I love their interactions but I do hope they can put their personal acrimony aside to help their daughter because Sally is crying out for attention. She’s clearly still affected by the death of her grandfather and the absence of her father. I hope talking to Dr. Edna helps her.
Miss Blankenship is still amazing with that comic timing. I hope Don suffers through her for at least one more episode.
Drop Dead Diva: Good Grief by Kara Howland
I don’t watch The Bachelor but I do have an opinion about Jake Pavelka: he’s not a very good actor. He’s easy on the eyes though.
Jake makes a cameo appearance as a guy named Toby. A show called The One, with an eerily similar premise to that of The Bachelor, has just made one of the bachelorettes into a public laughing stock. She’s known as Weeping Wendy. She’s suing the show’s producer because she’s been humiliated. Even though she signed a release form, the judge will allow the jury to decide if the show caused her intentional infliction of emotional harm. The most interesting thing about this case, at least for me, is how it affects Kim and Parker’s relationship. But first a quick question: Is this the first time we’ve seen Parker in court? I’m trying to remember. I do like seeing him there, it just feels new and maybe a bit weird. Ok, back to Kim and Parker. She has every right to be wary of his romantic baggage. He’s the love ‘em and don’t ever talk to ‘em again when it’s over type. When he’s in a relationship he’s in 100%. When it’s over, he’s gone. All’s well that ends well though – at least for the case. The producer is in love with Wendy and urged Toby to pick the other girl. He knew Toby was all about launching his career while Wendy was all about finding true love. They end up going out to dinner to see if there’s something there.
Speaking of true love, Jane takes a case that doesn’t please Parker. Her client is dressing up as a clown even though his job is in corporate sales. His wife died about six months ago and that’s when the costume and makeup made its first appearance. The day before Evan’s wife died they spent time together and both got a kick out of a clown that made fun of her. Dressing up makes Evan feel close to his wife. The only problem is that people at his company are uncomfortable and when Evan uses his horn to answer a question in court, the judge holds him in contempt. With Grayson as Jane’s co-counsel she’s getting insight into how Grayson dealt with Deb’s death. He too was on a downward spiral until he realized Deb wouldn’t like the man he was becoming. Jane pulls out that piece of wisdom for Evan and helps him take his makeup off when Evan realizes what he’s doing. And as a bonus he gets his job back. I think it was a shame to put Barry Watson in all that makeup. But at least Jane and Grayson got to bond a bit.
Stacy likes Fred. Well, it’s about time. Jane suspects Stacy might have feelings for Fred when she wipes off her zit cream before he can see it. And later when Fred invites Stacy to dinner and she runs into an ex, Fred defends her honor. When Stacy kisses him, Fred realizes he might just be on a date with his dream girl. I like seeing these two crazy kids together. I’m excited to see where it goes now that Fred has a new “deal.”
Next week is the two-hour season finale and based on the previews it should be quite exciting. I won’t give anything away here but if you miss it you’ll be sorry. See you next week.
Jake makes a cameo appearance as a guy named Toby. A show called The One, with an eerily similar premise to that of The Bachelor, has just made one of the bachelorettes into a public laughing stock. She’s known as Weeping Wendy. She’s suing the show’s producer because she’s been humiliated. Even though she signed a release form, the judge will allow the jury to decide if the show caused her intentional infliction of emotional harm. The most interesting thing about this case, at least for me, is how it affects Kim and Parker’s relationship. But first a quick question: Is this the first time we’ve seen Parker in court? I’m trying to remember. I do like seeing him there, it just feels new and maybe a bit weird. Ok, back to Kim and Parker. She has every right to be wary of his romantic baggage. He’s the love ‘em and don’t ever talk to ‘em again when it’s over type. When he’s in a relationship he’s in 100%. When it’s over, he’s gone. All’s well that ends well though – at least for the case. The producer is in love with Wendy and urged Toby to pick the other girl. He knew Toby was all about launching his career while Wendy was all about finding true love. They end up going out to dinner to see if there’s something there.
Speaking of true love, Jane takes a case that doesn’t please Parker. Her client is dressing up as a clown even though his job is in corporate sales. His wife died about six months ago and that’s when the costume and makeup made its first appearance. The day before Evan’s wife died they spent time together and both got a kick out of a clown that made fun of her. Dressing up makes Evan feel close to his wife. The only problem is that people at his company are uncomfortable and when Evan uses his horn to answer a question in court, the judge holds him in contempt. With Grayson as Jane’s co-counsel she’s getting insight into how Grayson dealt with Deb’s death. He too was on a downward spiral until he realized Deb wouldn’t like the man he was becoming. Jane pulls out that piece of wisdom for Evan and helps him take his makeup off when Evan realizes what he’s doing. And as a bonus he gets his job back. I think it was a shame to put Barry Watson in all that makeup. But at least Jane and Grayson got to bond a bit.
Stacy likes Fred. Well, it’s about time. Jane suspects Stacy might have feelings for Fred when she wipes off her zit cream before he can see it. And later when Fred invites Stacy to dinner and she runs into an ex, Fred defends her honor. When Stacy kisses him, Fred realizes he might just be on a date with his dream girl. I like seeing these two crazy kids together. I’m excited to see where it goes now that Fred has a new “deal.”
Next week is the two-hour season finale and based on the previews it should be quite exciting. I won’t give anything away here but if you miss it you’ll be sorry. See you next week.
The Rachel Zoe Project: Changes in the Zoe Camp by Kara Howland
So…I wanted to try to do a marathon and catch up on all three episodes so far but I totally ran out of time this weekend. I’m hoping to catch up by the end of the week (wish me luck). In the meantime, I got one episode watched.
With Taylor’s shady departure and awards season imminent, Brad (now the Style Director) has to bring another person into the business. And what happened to Taylor you ask? Fired. The “financials” weren’t lining up. It seems like she was “borrowing” samples and never returning them and from what Rodger says it looks like her expense reports weren’t on the level either. Wow. I have no problem accusing Taylor of being a bratty drama queen (and perhaps also brilliant in terms of her styling) but I would have never pegged her for a thief and a liar. Seriously.
Rachel and Rodger starting looking to hire another person. Brad says this person will replace Taylor, but I don’t think that’s really true. They don’t seem to want another associate. They want an assistant and even though Taylor complained loudly about still performing assistant duties, technically she wasn’t an assistant.
Rachel thinks all six applicants are so green. And they are. Someone who is an “assistant” at Rachel Zoe is probably an associate somewhere else. And, of course, Rachel’s stressing about making the decision – she wants to make sure she picks a person who is no drama.
On top of everything they’ve just been hit with a Harper’s Bazaar shoot with Demi Moore. It’s shooting in four days with 10 looks, but Rachel wants 30 looks to choose from. It will be a playful and prop-y shoot, based on what they know now. The way it works is Rachel picks her looks from the runway, emails the editorial department and they try to pull as many pieces as possible. Rachel also brings her own pieces in. It’s a good thing the look books have just come in. Demi was Taylor’s client so Brad is feeling a bit stressed. It would be a disaster if any of Taylor’s clients left Rachel to go work with Taylor.
Since the concept isn’t 100% set, Brad wants to take a lot of looks to the shoot. He wants to prove that he can do more than Taylor was doing.
Bazaar sends Rachel a list of images they’ll be using in the shoots – oversized and undersized props. Brad is surprised to see a giraffe on the list with all the other props.
Rachel gets a call that her old agency is now repping Taylor and that they’ve sent out a press release about it. And Rachel didn’t know anything about this. You have to admit that it’s a shrewd move by both Taylor and Rachel’s old agency. Whatever the real story is, Taylor is a stylist and she’s going to do whatever she needs to do to get a job.
Rachel’s feeling the pressure. She wants Demi and Bazaar to be happy and she wants the photographs to be iconic and beautiful.
The shoot is in Malibu and all the looks are from the Spring runways. Rachel’s going for Alice in Wonderland, a little surreal and little dream-like. The shoot seems to be going well but there is one Marc Jacobs piece that Rachel keeps asking Brad about that isn’t there yet. Brad’s definitely feeling like they’re short-staffed; there’s only so much he can do (a refrain I feel like we heard a lot from Taylor). When the bloomer outfit arrives but there seem to be undergarments missing so they decide not to use it.
Location change. They move from the house to the beach. Rachel has to be carried down to the beach because of her shoes. She claims not to own flats, which I believe. Here comes the giraffe and Demi is in the Alexander McQueen. Beautiful.
With the Bazaar shoot done, Rachel makes the call to Ashley. She’s hired. She needs to start immediately because they’re so insane right now.
Brad wants Rachel to see the latest issue of Paper before she’s ambushed with her. A while back Brad and Taylor were approached by the magazine and asked to style each other for a photo shoot. At the time it was a great idea, now it’s awkward now. Rachel tears Taylor’s pictures up, throws them in the fireplace, and wants to light a fire. She doesn’t wish Taylor the best. Rachel just wants Taylor out of her mind.
What a great episode. More than anything I watch the show for the fashion. Sometimes I want to fast-forward through all the drama. Whether or not Taylor is on the show, there will always be drama. Rachel is always freaking out about something and so is Brad. Rachel’s’ studio seems like the perfect environment for that. I just roll my eyes and go with it. I do think both Rachel and Brad have every right to feel betrayed and angry. But they both need to get over it and do their jobs. I know Taylor was with Rachel for four years and she considered her family, but cut those heartstrings Rachel. Stuff like this happens all the time in the business world. You hope it won’t happen to you but you’ve got to move on when it does.
I, for one, am very excited about awards season. I always like seeing all the dresses and the finished looks. I can’t wait to see what Rachel puts on her clients for the Globes. And who is the mystery client who defects to Taylor for the big show? I don’t know since I haven’t watched that episode yet. But when I do, I’ll meet you back here.
With Taylor’s shady departure and awards season imminent, Brad (now the Style Director) has to bring another person into the business. And what happened to Taylor you ask? Fired. The “financials” weren’t lining up. It seems like she was “borrowing” samples and never returning them and from what Rodger says it looks like her expense reports weren’t on the level either. Wow. I have no problem accusing Taylor of being a bratty drama queen (and perhaps also brilliant in terms of her styling) but I would have never pegged her for a thief and a liar. Seriously.
Rachel and Rodger starting looking to hire another person. Brad says this person will replace Taylor, but I don’t think that’s really true. They don’t seem to want another associate. They want an assistant and even though Taylor complained loudly about still performing assistant duties, technically she wasn’t an assistant.
Rachel thinks all six applicants are so green. And they are. Someone who is an “assistant” at Rachel Zoe is probably an associate somewhere else. And, of course, Rachel’s stressing about making the decision – she wants to make sure she picks a person who is no drama.
On top of everything they’ve just been hit with a Harper’s Bazaar shoot with Demi Moore. It’s shooting in four days with 10 looks, but Rachel wants 30 looks to choose from. It will be a playful and prop-y shoot, based on what they know now. The way it works is Rachel picks her looks from the runway, emails the editorial department and they try to pull as many pieces as possible. Rachel also brings her own pieces in. It’s a good thing the look books have just come in. Demi was Taylor’s client so Brad is feeling a bit stressed. It would be a disaster if any of Taylor’s clients left Rachel to go work with Taylor.
Since the concept isn’t 100% set, Brad wants to take a lot of looks to the shoot. He wants to prove that he can do more than Taylor was doing.
Bazaar sends Rachel a list of images they’ll be using in the shoots – oversized and undersized props. Brad is surprised to see a giraffe on the list with all the other props.
Rachel gets a call that her old agency is now repping Taylor and that they’ve sent out a press release about it. And Rachel didn’t know anything about this. You have to admit that it’s a shrewd move by both Taylor and Rachel’s old agency. Whatever the real story is, Taylor is a stylist and she’s going to do whatever she needs to do to get a job.
Rachel’s feeling the pressure. She wants Demi and Bazaar to be happy and she wants the photographs to be iconic and beautiful.
The shoot is in Malibu and all the looks are from the Spring runways. Rachel’s going for Alice in Wonderland, a little surreal and little dream-like. The shoot seems to be going well but there is one Marc Jacobs piece that Rachel keeps asking Brad about that isn’t there yet. Brad’s definitely feeling like they’re short-staffed; there’s only so much he can do (a refrain I feel like we heard a lot from Taylor). When the bloomer outfit arrives but there seem to be undergarments missing so they decide not to use it.
Location change. They move from the house to the beach. Rachel has to be carried down to the beach because of her shoes. She claims not to own flats, which I believe. Here comes the giraffe and Demi is in the Alexander McQueen. Beautiful.
With the Bazaar shoot done, Rachel makes the call to Ashley. She’s hired. She needs to start immediately because they’re so insane right now.
Brad wants Rachel to see the latest issue of Paper before she’s ambushed with her. A while back Brad and Taylor were approached by the magazine and asked to style each other for a photo shoot. At the time it was a great idea, now it’s awkward now. Rachel tears Taylor’s pictures up, throws them in the fireplace, and wants to light a fire. She doesn’t wish Taylor the best. Rachel just wants Taylor out of her mind.
What a great episode. More than anything I watch the show for the fashion. Sometimes I want to fast-forward through all the drama. Whether or not Taylor is on the show, there will always be drama. Rachel is always freaking out about something and so is Brad. Rachel’s’ studio seems like the perfect environment for that. I just roll my eyes and go with it. I do think both Rachel and Brad have every right to feel betrayed and angry. But they both need to get over it and do their jobs. I know Taylor was with Rachel for four years and she considered her family, but cut those heartstrings Rachel. Stuff like this happens all the time in the business world. You hope it won’t happen to you but you’ve got to move on when it does.
I, for one, am very excited about awards season. I always like seeing all the dresses and the finished looks. I can’t wait to see what Rachel puts on her clients for the Globes. And who is the mystery client who defects to Taylor for the big show? I don’t know since I haven’t watched that episode yet. But when I do, I’ll meet you back here.
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